OUT OF STEPFORD

As a product of two graduate writing programs who’s now taking workshops at UCLA, I read “The Stepford Writers” with great interest.

While Altacruise confirms many of my worst fears about the contemporary writing scene, I am left with one question: If the Stepfords are in charge, not only of creative-writing departments but of the literary magazines so often found under their aegis, where is one who doesn’t fit the mold going to publish his or her work?

SYLVIA WEISER WENDEL, NORTH HOLLYWOOD