Date: 14 - 28 August 2012
Whether you are a freelancer, a blogger or just someone who likes complaining about the movie on the way out of the theater, we are all “critics” in search of an outlet. This three-session course considers some of the pressing questions facing cultural journalists today from the philosophical (the changing meaning of “taste” and criticism, the rules for reviewing, the personal essay in a confessional age) to the practical (voice and clarity; strategies for pitching magazines and websites; the editing process; writing for an ever-changing digital medium). Grantland’s Hua Hsu will lead discussions of assigned readings, administer weekly writing assignments, and offer critical feedback to increase the readability of your work.
Students are invited to bring up to ten pages of writing--excerpts from a longer piece, an assortment of clips, whatever--to the first meeting.
Hua Hsu is a staff writer at Grantland. He has written about popular culture and politics for Artforum, the Atlantic (for whom he blogged from 2009-2011), the Believer, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New York Times, the Paris Review, Slate and the Village Voice. His 2009 cover story for the Atlantic, "The End of White America?" was widely anthologized. He was on the editorial board of the New Literary History of America and he teaches in the English Department at Vassar College. He is on the Board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: desk@aaww.org
Website: http://aaww.org/
Whether you are a freelancer, a blogger or just someone who likes complaining about the movie on the way out of the theater, we are all “critics” in search of an outlet. This three-session course considers some of the pressing questions facing cultural journalists today from the philosophical (the changing meaning of “taste” and criticism, the rules for reviewing, the personal essay in a confessional age) to the practical (voice and clarity; strategies for pitching magazines and websites; the editing process; writing for an ever-changing digital medium). Grantland’s Hua Hsu will lead discussions of assigned readings, administer weekly writing assignments, and offer critical feedback to increase the readability of your work.
Students are invited to bring up to ten pages of writing--excerpts from a longer piece, an assortment of clips, whatever--to the first meeting.
Hua Hsu is a staff writer at Grantland. He has written about popular culture and politics for Artforum, the Atlantic (for whom he blogged from 2009-2011), the Believer, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New York Times, the Paris Review, Slate and the Village Voice. His 2009 cover story for the Atlantic, "The End of White America?" was widely anthologized. He was on the editorial board of the New Literary History of America and he teaches in the English Department at Vassar College. He is on the Board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
- Three Tuesdays from August 14 to August 28, 2012, 7PM-9PM
- Fee: $150 General/$100 Members
- Deposit: $60 General/$45 Members
- Venue: The Asian American Writers' Workshop, 110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600, New York, New York 10001
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: desk@aaww.org
Website: http://aaww.org/
