Melville House Books

You know the legend: Lots of great writers have come out of the MFA program at the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop, including Flannery O’Connor, Raymond Carver, John Edgar Wideman, Kurt Vonnegut and both Dennises — some would say Denises — Johnson. At least one notable grad, though, is still pretty rankled about her time there, many years later:

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.