How I Write with Debra Satz

"How I Write" is a series of conversations with faculty and other advanced writers to explore the nuts and bolts, pleasures and pains, of all types of writing. While content is always an issue, the conversation will primarily focus on work styles, such as where, when, and how a writer composes, allowing us to examine habits, idiosyncrasies, techniques, trade secrets, hidden anxieties, and delights. We will discuss how a writer generates ideas, sustains large-scale projects, combines research with composition, overcomes various impediments and

blocks, and cultivates stylistic innovations. Writing communities share experiences (even bad ones), so that all writers can learn and grow, and Stanford is an exceptionally rich community for gaining such insights.

Debra Satz is Director of the Ethics in Society Program. Her writing focuses on social and political philosophy, philosophy of economics, and feminist philosophy. She is the co-author with John Ferejohn of Rational Choice and Social Theory and her articles and chapters include The Limits of the Market: A Map of the Major Debates, Equality of What Among Whom?: Thoughts on Cosmopolitanism, Statism and Nationalism, and Markets in Womenýs Sexual Labor.