On The Mays

Advice for the Young Writer

Here’s a rarity.

In 2012, I was asked to write an introduction for an anthology of student writing called The Mays.

It was an anthology of new writing from students at Oxford and Cambridge. My co-guest editor was Tao Lin.

I don’t know if I ever got to see a finished copy. I don’t have one now.

It’s often in the smaller places, the less likely to be noticed,…