[EVENT] George Scialabba discusses For the Republic

[EVENT] George Scialabba discusses For the Republic

Monday, October 21, 7:00 PM
Book Culture (536 W. 112th St, New York, NY)

Join award-winning critic George Scialabba for a discussion of his latest book, For the Republic, at Book Culture on. Scialabba will be in conversation with Dissent‘s online editor Tim Barker, who reviewed For the Republic in Bookforum earlier this year:

For decades now, Scialabba has persisted in not only reviewing books he likes or hates, but in writing about seemingly anything that feels relevant. It is tempting to imagine this written work as continuous with the conversations he has at work: “the office radical,” he describes himself, “usually humored or ignored,” but also tenacious and sometimes well-received. In the book’s forward, cultural historian Jackson Lears quotes a description of William James that could characterize Scialabba: “You felt that he had just stepped out of this sadness in order to meet you.” As Scialabba so aptly argues, sadness is easy enough to come by in this day in age. It is the willingness to step out, again and again, in search of conversation—and happiness—that impresses so deeply.