Eviatar Zerubavel, The Clockwork Muse

Zerubavel here provides practical advice about making time for and scheduling large writing projects. I can't say that I learned anything from him that I'd want to implement myself: Much of the advice is self-evident, and I have no need or interest in making the sort of highly detailed working schedule or timeline that he advocates. But graduate students might find what he has to say useful for working on their dissertations. I do find impressive how very organized the author is about his work, and I like reading about how other people organize their work lives, so I did find the book interesting in that respect. It's also peppered with bits of wisdom here and there, for example—and I've said this on numerous occasions to my kids—that you are more likely to be content in life if you want less than if you have more.