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Selected Essays | Adam Shatz on James Baldwin
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On this episode of The Point podcast series “Selected Essays,” Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine talk to the writer Adam Shatz about James Baldwin's essay “Alas, Poor Richard” (1961), a eulogy of sorts for Richard Wright, and Adam's new book, Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso 2023), which gathers a series of intellectual portraits of great thinkers and writers such as Wright, Claude-Levi Strauss, Chester Himes, Jacques Derrida, Fouad Ajami and Edward Said.
Chapters
1. Selected Essays | Adam Shatz on James Baldwin (00:00:00)
2. What is "Alas, Poor Richard" about? (00:01:53)
3. Adam reads a passage from "Alas, Poor Richard" (00:08:13)
4. Is success a curse? (00:09:55)
5. The foundation for the essay (00:13:10)
6. Who is the imagined audience? (00:16:23)
7. God or father figure? (00:20:32)
8. Wright and Baldwin's interpersonal conflict (00:29:30)
9. Resurgence of interest in Wright? (00:35:57)
10. Dissecting the title (00:39:40)
11. A riveting portrait (00:43:58)
12. Why Adam likes the essay form (00:46:24)
13. Aesthetics and politics (00:49:09)
29 episodes
Manage episode 365335303 series 1827168
On this episode of The Point podcast series “Selected Essays,” Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine talk to the writer Adam Shatz about James Baldwin's essay “Alas, Poor Richard” (1961), a eulogy of sorts for Richard Wright, and Adam's new book, Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso 2023), which gathers a series of intellectual portraits of great thinkers and writers such as Wright, Claude-Levi Strauss, Chester Himes, Jacques Derrida, Fouad Ajami and Edward Said.
Chapters
1. Selected Essays | Adam Shatz on James Baldwin (00:00:00)
2. What is "Alas, Poor Richard" about? (00:01:53)
3. Adam reads a passage from "Alas, Poor Richard" (00:08:13)
4. Is success a curse? (00:09:55)
5. The foundation for the essay (00:13:10)
6. Who is the imagined audience? (00:16:23)
7. God or father figure? (00:20:32)
8. Wright and Baldwin's interpersonal conflict (00:29:30)
9. Resurgence of interest in Wright? (00:35:57)
10. Dissecting the title (00:39:40)
11. A riveting portrait (00:43:58)
12. Why Adam likes the essay form (00:46:24)
13. Aesthetics and politics (00:49:09)
29 episodes
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