Even then, it was a very prestigious writing program.

即便那时它就已经久负盛名了
There is a peculiarity for writing in the second half of the twentieth century,

二十世纪后半叶的文坛有一个特点
and here I'm drawing on another critic, from UCLA;

这里我引用来自加大洛杉矶分校的一位评论家的论述
his name is Mark McGurl.

他的名字是马克?麦格尔
He has argued that what is historically novel about this period

他认为这段时期相比于其他历史时期不同的是
is that writers have consistently been located in universities.

作家始终都呆在大学里
They have been trained at universities;

他们在大学里接受专门培训
they have taught at universities; they have gone to creative writing

他们在大学里教书
programs embedded within universities;

他们加入了依托于大学的写作社
they have held visiting positions; they've done readings;

他们担任客座职位他们有丰富的阅读经历
and they have written books whose primary readership is

他们写书而且书的主要读者群
around a seminar table or in a lecture hall like this.

都是在研讨会或者像这样的课堂上