Monday, December 7, 2015
UC Riverside Palm Desert MFA
Winter Residency Lecture
Below are links to the materials from this lecture, plus some handouts. Feel free to print anything you like. If you use anything I’ve created, please attribute correctly.
If you have questions, email me at hspartington@gmail.com.
Time Management
Rocks, Pebbles and Sand (apocryphal)
Software: Freedom & Antisocial
Time tracker: Toggl
Online resources: managing time/energy:
Zen Habits by Leo Babuta
Books about creativity/productivity:
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
Writing Criticism
Basic writing strategy (critical papers): AXES Body Paragraph (UCSD)
Tips for Successful Book Reviews by Rebecca Skloot
On Reading/ Criticism
“How Could You Like that Book?” and “How I Read” by Tim Parks, NYRB
“Much Ado about Niceness” by Maria Bustillos, The New Yorker
(references this interview of Isaac Fitzgerald in Poynter by Andrew Beaujon)
“On Pandering” by Claire Vaye Watkins, Tin House
“If You Enjoyed a Good Book and You’re a Woman, Critics Think You’re Wrong” by Jennifer Weiner, The Guardian
“Book Critics Don’t Exist to Flatter Your Taste” by Claire Fallon, Huffington Post
“Don’t Let Men Attack Pumpkin Spice Literature” by Phoebe Maltz Bovy, New Republic
“When Popular Fiction isn’t Popular” by Lincoln Michel, Electric Literature
Literary Disco: Episode 90 (New York Public Library)
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