The Circle, or, How We Teach Art Through One Another
7 min readApr 2, 2020
Not long ago I had the good fortune to be a member of Lan Samantha Chang’s fiction workshop at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. We met in two different locations — two days in a living room setting dubbed “Dragon’s Den,” and on the other days, a large classroom. But at both locales, as participants trickled in and claimed chairs, the same ritual took place, automatically and without discussion…
