I am an editor, translator, and critic as well as a nonfiction writer, and to be honest, the boundary between these roles often feels pretty porous. I spent eight years at Harper's Magazine, the last two as editor-in-chief, and before that, I worked at the Columbia Journalism Review, various failing branches of America Online, and Amazon.com. At MacDowell in 2018, I got within hailing distance of completing a long-term project, Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Emerson in Fourteen Installments, which will publish in late 2019 or early 2020. Recent essays have appeared on The New Yorker website and in The American Scholar.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
James Marcus
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017, 2018
A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook
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Garland
James Marcus worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…