People are going to be kicking themselves when they discover Daniel Mendelsohn was in town and they missed it (and they will miss it).
But those who read G-Sync -- as well as high brow, literature-based publications like The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Esquire, Travel + Leisure, and The Paris Review or one of Mendelsohn’s many books or essays -- are about to become the lucky ones.
Mendelsohn, now the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College, will be in town to present a new work, Medea on the Jersey Shore: Tragedy and the Crisis of Reality in Contemporary Culture.
Given the backdrop of reality programming and its grip on society, this is sure to be a most informative lecture.
His books have long looked at culture, but juxtaposed and jutting back and forth from an ancient past to a more touchy present. It is his unique ability to make it all work somehow that has earned him many accolades, but none higher than this one from The New York Review of Books: “[Mendelson is] arguably the best writer and critic at work today…There is nothing to which he does not bring a fresh perspective.”
Seating is very limited so if you don’t want to find yourself standing in the back of the room, then I suggest you arrive early. Immediately after the lecture, Mendelsohn will be signing copies of his books before jetting off to Holland…the country. He is a big deal, so represent, West Michigan.
Admission: Free
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