WHO: |
Panelists
Joyce Carol Oates: Renaissance woman and the author of countless novels, including You Must Remember This; Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart; and– in 2015 alone – Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories; The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age; and The Sacrifice: A Novel. Her short pieces have been widely published, including in Salmagundi and, frequently, The New York Review of Books.
Jackson Lears: Historian and Editor-in-Chief of Raritan: a Quarterly Review. Author of Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America; No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920, among other books. His essays have appeared in publications such as The New Republic, The Nation and The New York Times.
Mark Greif: Author, cultural critic and co-founder of n+1. Author of The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973, and numerous essays that have appeared in London Review of Books and Harper’s, among other journals.
Heidi Julavits: Novelist, writer and co-editor of The Believer. Author of The Folded Clock: A Diary and The Vanisher, among other works of fiction. Her essays have appeared in publications such as Esquire, Harper’s and The New York Times.
Rachel Rosenfelt: Founder of The New Inquiry, Creative Director of Verso Books, and adjunct professor in the New School Creative Publishing program.
Jon Baskin: Co-founder and editor of The Point. His reviews and essays have appeared in The Nation, The Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, and The New York Observer.
Alix Rule: Co-founder of Useless Press, a publishing collective that creates “eclectic Internet things.” A sociologist by training, with an interest in discourse analysis, her essays have appeared in Dissent, Triple Canopy, and other magazines.
Sam Lavigne: Co-founder of Useless Press, blogger, and designer of web projects meant to attract "fellow alienated subjects of late capitalism," including “3 Degrees of Separation from the Military-Industrial-Prison-Data-Surveillance State.”
Sarah Leonard: Senior Editor at The Nation and contributing editor to Dissent and The New Inquiry. She has co-edited two books: Occupy!: An OWS-Inspired Gazette with literary magazine n+1, and The Future We Want: Radical Solutions for the 21st Century.
Morris Dickstein: Literary scholar and critic. Author of Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression; The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture; and Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties. His essays and reviews have appeared in Partisan Review, The American Scholar, The New Republic, New York Times Book Review and The Nation.
Benj DeMott: Writer, author and founder-editor of First of the Month, a journal of politics and culture. His work has appeared in publications such as City Sun and The Village Voice.
Wendy Lesser: Editor and founder of The Threepenny Review. Author of Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books; Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets; and Hiding in Plain Sight: Essays in Criticism; and Autobiography.
Greil Marcus: Cultural critic and historian. Author of Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music; Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century; The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs; and Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations. Her Essays and reviews have appeared in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Artforum, and The Threepenny Review.
Russell Banks: Novelist, short story writer, essayist, and keen-eyed observer of the American scene. Among his books are Sweet Hereafter; Rule of the Bone; Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, Lost Memory of Skin, Affliction, and The Darling.
Carolyn Forché: Poet and essayist. Her poetry collections include The Country Between Us; Blue Hour; and The Angel of History.
Moderators
James Miller: Author of various books, including The Passion of Michel Foucault; “Democracy is in the Streets”: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago; and Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche. He is the former editor of Daedalus, and also formerly a critic for Rolling Stone, The New Republic and Newsweek.
Robert Boyers: Literary scholar, critic, short story writer – and founder and editor for fifty years of Salmagundi. Author of The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals; and Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel since 1945. His essays and reviews have appeared in Harpers; The New Republic; and Raritan, among other magazines. |
WHEN: |
Friday, November 13
The following panels are chaired by James Miller and Robert Boyers:
9:30am-11:00am The Little Magazine Today
Jon Baskin (The Point), Alix Rule and Sam Lavigne (The American Reader), and Rachel Rosenfelt (The New Inquiry)
11:15am-1:00pm Left Politics & the Little Magazine
Sarah Leonard (The Nation, Dissent), Morris Dickstein (Dissent), and Benj DeMott (First of the Month)
2:00pm-3:30pm Criticism & the Little Magazine
Wendy Lesser, Greil Marcus, and Mark Greif
3:45pm-5:30pm Politics, Art, Poetry, Fiction
Russell Banks, Carolyn Forché, and Joyce Carol Oates |
