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...Violence itself is not a red flag,” Johnston said. “I have students who are writing brilliantly and very deftly about violence...
...going to ban violence from stories?” Johnston asked, “Absolutely not. What if I’m discouraging the next Shakespeare? Fiction, I believe comes down to empathy and conflict, and I can’t ban conflict...
...young man’s writing seems to be pretty clearly not art,” Johnston said, “He wasn’t trying to create art. I think that is why Lucinda Roy, who is his teacher at Virginia...reached...
...intensity and closeness of the creative writing experience—in which undergraduates meet with professors at length throughout the semester—made this event all the more surprising, Johnston said...
...know these students extremely, extremely well,” Johnston said. “This is in some ways why something like what happened at Virginia is so unsettling and disturbing because we do know these students so well. We can’t imagine something like this happening to them nor can we imagine them being part of something like this...