Maybe AV Club should hire a reviewer who actually likes the show. I think this reviewer is smart, but she doesn't seem to like the Good Wife—she seems to like a hypothetical show that promotes her pro-LGBTQ, and avidly feminist, and pro-POC representation politics. (ideas I personally tend to agree with—but I'm okay…

As someone who goes to a fairly prominent MFA program (not Iowa), people go for all kinds of reasons. It's hardly specific to that however; students have faculty "crushes" on the "hot"/prestige writers (of the moment?), but you can usually only get them for one semester, and maybe for a craft—reading—course besides…

Soapbox rant: that Fitzgerald quote doesn't mean what you - and everyone else - thinks it means (having heard it on The Wire). It's from "The Last Tycoon", and it refers to how literally, American lives have no second acts—there is no development, simply rise, and then decline. (It's a version of "rags to rags in…

So, you're not WRONG.
I am being somewhat difficult. 
Obviously, I can understand Ray is having some self-esteem issues from his situation (Also this hasn't been explained to me—if he manages Grumpy's, why can't he afford a place if Hannah can? Does he have some gambling/drug problem that someone forgot to put into the…

Those are mostly modern authors, most of which publish regularly in the New Yorker. Saunders, Munro, and Diaz have all put out collections in the past 6 months, most of which were previously published in the NYer.

Todd,
every college freshman reading this review wishes you would grade their papers, since I'm sure you could make an argument for the grammatical and logical mistakes as "indicative of modern thought processes", and the sloppiness as "a statement about modern life".