Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant

Lee Samantha Chang to Head Iowa

As widely reported at other places, Lee Samantha Chang will be Frank Conroy's replacement as the director of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Maud links to an interview with Robert Birnbaum, whereby Chang revealed that she found her calling as a writer almost entirely by accident.

And back in February, the erstwhile Max provided some inside details on Chang's "audition."