Speaker: James Marcus, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, NYU
Moderator: Daniel Elam, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Time: 10:00 am Hong Kong Time
Venue: On Zoom
More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers to this Emerson, a writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness.
James Marcus is the author of Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson (2024) and Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut (2004). He edited and introduced Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage (2010) and has translated seven books from the Italian, the most recent being Giacomo Casanova’s The Duel (2010). His essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, VQR, The American Scholar, The Atlantic, and many other publications. He is also the former editor of Harper’s Magazine, and currently teaches at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
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