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...critical reviews, Martin’s novels are widely read—he’s been on the New York Times bestseller list three times. The author readily admits that he is not aiming to pen the next great American novel. “My job is to write books people stay up late reading,” Martin says...
While at Harvard, Martin concentrated in English and directed several student productions. After graduation, he headed to University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television to study moviemaking. While he waited for his big directorial break, he began to write B-movie horror flicks, including the little-remembered “Humanoids from the Deep.” His pet projects, though, were his historically-themed screenplays.“Everyone who’d look at them would tell me, ‘You ought to write a novel,’” Martin says...
Martin began to write Back Bay, chronicling the fictional Peter Fallon’s quest to find a missing Paul Revere tea set stolen from the White House. Martin set up his now routine past-and-present structure, bringing the reader from 18th-century Boston to modern day chapter by chapter, chronicling six generations on their hunt for the missing silver. The book ends with an appropriately cinematic touch—Fallon blowing a hole into the side of a T subway tunnel to reveal a cache of hidden silver. “I thought, as I still...
...pedagogical improvement across disciplines, to my mind, lies in convincing TFs that they are teachers, not graders. My worst ever experience with a TF came in a Core class for which I was required to write a seven-page paper. The TF returned it with a grade and a one-word comment: “Good.” (It wasn’t even.) Clearly, that type of approach, prioritizing letter grades over substantive feedback, is unacceptable. Obviously, though, that experience is the exception, not the rule. Most of the TFs I’ve had at Harvard have...
...training regime at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Maybe it should be organized by the HWP, or even by the departments themselves under centralized supervision. Figuring out the details will be complicated—but it is logistical challenge worth tackling. After all, knowing how to write well is a skill that is useful across disciplines, and, dare I say it, far beyond Harvard...