Thomas Hopkins’s Memoranda Manufactory

Published earlier this week at Yankee Pot Roast: “The One-Room M.F.A. Program.”

My new Y.P.R. bio explains everything:

Back when he was gettin his em-eff-ay from en-why-you, Thomas Hopkins was in Chuck’s class this one time, and Jen was sayin how she would’ve preferred to learn writin back when old Steve Crane was still kickin around, which was when Robin cracked wise about one-room M.F.A. programs, and Tom was all “Jehoshaphat’s whiskers that’s good stuff,” and Robin was all “Well, Shadrach on a stick, stuff is yours, go on and use it.” And so Tom did. Tom says: Thanks, Robin! Tom also claims this story is funniest read out loud all Foghorn Leghorn-like. But friend, I say, ah, friend, you be the judge.

It’s all true!