James Marcus Editor, Translator, & Critic James Marcus is the author of Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut. He edited and introduced Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage and has translated seven books from the Italian, including Giacomo Casanova’s The Duel. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, VQR, The American Scholar, 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. Participant In: The Poetry of Aging November 2nd, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » “So here it is at last, the distinguished thing” So Henry James described his intimation of death. His brother, William, was grittier, but no less poetic in calling it the “worm at the core” that frightens and fascinates us. Thoughts of aging and death have inspired some of our most beautiful poetry: “Upon those… read more »
The Poetry of Aging November 2nd, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » “So here it is at last, the distinguished thing” So Henry James described his intimation of death. His brother, William, was grittier, but no less poetic in calling it the “worm at the core” that frightens and fascinates us. Thoughts of aging and death have inspired some of our most beautiful poetry: “Upon those… read more »