Graduate Students as Writers

Last week we had a wonderful lunch with the great Alessandra Link (On twitter at @AlessandraLink2).   She talked about writing, learning to write, writing well, and cherishing writing.

Here is a list of the great books she recommended

1. Aaron Sachs, “Letters to a Tenured Historian: Imagining History as Creative Nonfiction–or Maybe Even Poetry,” Rethinking History  14:1 (2010)
   1. with responses from other historians:
      1. Jeffery Wasserstrom, “A letter from an Emeritus Historian, c. 2049″
      2. Kate Brown, “Three Letters from to a Junior Colleague“
      3. Jenny Price, “A Letter from a Lapsed Colleague“
2. Anne Dillard, The Writing Life
3. Dani Shapiro, Still Writing (a personal favorite)
4. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
5. John McPhee, Draft No. 4
6. Stephen King, On Writing
7. Zadie Smith interview