George Prochnik

@GeorgeProchnik

Writer. Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem & Jerusalem; The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World; Cabinet Magazine

Brooklyn
Joined November 2012
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  1. Jan 21

    Many thanks to for the beautiful cover of my new book, I DREAM WITH OPEN EYES. I'm especially grateful to designer & art director . Available in stores & libraries September 27th, 2022, it's available for preorder now.

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  2. 8 Apr 2021

    I'm so grateful and honored to be on this list. Thank you and many congratulations to all this year's other recipients!

    Congratulations to our newest class of Guggenheim Fellows! These 184 individuals represent the best of their respective fields, ranging from applied mathematics and political science to choreography and translation. Check out the full announcement here:
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  3. 18 Feb 2021

    "Orpheus Revolving," the essay we discuss, can be found here:

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  4. 18 Feb 2021

    Many thanks to for being such a sensitive and erudite interlocutor. I am grateful to for the opportunity to speak about art, the underworld, and our current crisis (& to for giving me the space to write on these themes)

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  5. 16 Nov 2020

    I wrote about the pandemic, my first-responder son, and the artist's role in times of crisis via

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    11 Nov 2020

    Without the black death, I fear for the future of leprosy

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  7. 10 Nov 2020

    Thanks so much--I hope you enjoy the book!

    A fresh look at the life and work of Heinrich Heine, by the author of 'The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World'
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  8. 29 Oct 2020

    "The only philosophy which can be reasonably practiced in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption." Adorno

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  9. 29 Oct 2020

    "Concepts like sadism and masochism no longer suffice...they are mediated by sensationalism, by comet-like, remote, ultimate newness. It overwhelms a public writhing under shock and oblivious of who has suffered the outrage, itself or others." Adorno

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  10. 29 Oct 2020

    "Without the almost irresistible force of the craving for headlines, in which the strangled heart convulsively sought a primeval world, the unspeakable could not have been endured by the spectators or even by the perpetrators." Adorno

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  11. 29 Oct 2020

    A few thoughts from Adorno in advance of election day: "Goebbels boasted that at least the National Socialists were not boring."

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  12. 18 Dec 2018

    Well done, PM. Determined to overcome stereotypes of the repressed English character, May charges forward with plans to make Britain one of the first countries in history to openly declare war on itself:

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  13. 17 Jul 2018

    Everyone wonders what Putin has on Trump, but suppose the real issue is not what dirt he has, but what gold he's promising. Suppose the big crime hasn't even happened yet, but is waiting for Trump in the form of a colossal future payment if he continues to perform Putin's will.

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  14. 13 Mar 2018

    Thanks to for his perceptive review of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.

    Who was Gershom Scholem, the scholar of Jewish mysticism described by Harold Bloom as "not less than a prophet"?
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  15. 31 Dec 2017

    "It may be that we can learn nothing from history but the fact that we have a history; but this already is enough to prevent us from putting ourselves under the regime of wishes." Hans Blumenberg

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  16. 6 Dec 2017

    For those missing the soundtrack to Trump's speech today:

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  17. 29 Nov 2017

    "Progress can no longer serve as the standard by which to evaluate the disastrously rapid change-processes we have let loose." Hannah Arendt

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  18. 29 Nov 2017

    "The assumption that things cannot go on like this will one day find itself apprised of the fact that for the suffering of individuals as of communities there is only one limit beyond which things cannot go: annihilation." Walter Benjamin

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  19. 29 Nov 2017

    "The blessing of a free press is that it removes any charm of novelty from the bold speech of the demagogue...and it strangles rumorous lies at birth, which, sowed by chance or evil, rise up so deadly and impudent when hidden like poisonous plants in dark swamps." Heine on Trump

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  20. 26 Nov 2017

    "I love Germany and the Germans; but I love no less the inhabitants of the rest of the earth, whose number is 40 times greater. I am thus--thank God--worth 40 times more than those who can't pull themselves out of the swamp of national egotism." Heinrich Heine on "America First"

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