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  • Jon Baskin

    Instructor and Associate Director, Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism

    Email
    baskinj@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - 6 East 16th Street

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    Jon Baskin

    Profile

    Jon Baskin is Instructor and Associate Director for the M.A. Program in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism (CPCJ) at The New School for Social Research. He is also a founding editor of The Point, a thrice-yearly magazine of philosophical essays and criticism. His first book, Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace, was published by Stanford Press in August 2019.   

    Baskin is the author of several reviews and essays on film, literature, and politics for national magazines including The Nation, the New York Review of Books, the Chronicle Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Besides being a freelance writer, he has served as an editorial assistant at a book publishing company, and a fact checker and intern at several magazines including The Atlantic, Popular Science, and Fast Company.  

    In 2016, he earned his PhD in Social Thought from the University of Chicago, where he focused on the intersection between literature and philosophy. He is a Chicago native, and graduated from Brown University in 2003 with a degree in English and History.

    Degrees Held

    PhD 2016, University of Chicago

    Past Courses

    Creative Pub./Crit. Journalism
    GPUB 5001, Fall 2022

    Independent Study
    GPUB 6990, Fall 2022, Spring 2023

    Multimedia Lab
    GPUB 6002, Spring 2023

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