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| September 5, 2011 WVOX 1460 AM WVOX.com The Sons of the American Legion Report Special Labor Day Edition of The Sons of the American Legion Report Special Guest William Deresiewicz Contributor: The New York Times Discussion of August 20, 2011 The New York Times Sunday Review Cover Article: "An Empty Regard" |
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Bill Deresiewicz [duh-reh-zuh-wits]
William Deresiewicz is an essayist and critic, and the author of “Solitude and
Leadership,” an address delivered at West Point in 2009 and widely taught in the
armed forces.
He writes about books, higher education, culture, politics, and anything else he can
get away with. He is the author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught
Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter, published in April by
Penguin Press. He is a Contributing Writer for The Nation and a Contributing Editor
for The New Republic as well as writing a weekly blog, “All Points,” for the American
Scholar. His essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, Bookforum, Slate and The London Review of Books.
His current book project is Excellent Sheep: Education, Leadership, and the Crisis of
American Values.
Bill’s work was nominated for National Magazine Awards in 2008, 2009, and 2011
and the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in
Reviewing in 2010 and 2011. David Brooks also gave it one of his “Sydney” awards
for magazine writing in 2010. It has or will be anthologized in Best American
Nonrequired Reading 2011 (Oct.), The Digital Divide: Writings For and Against
Facebook, YouTube, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking (Sept. 2011), and
about 17 college readers. He has spoken at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cornell,
Pomona College, and West Point. His essay “Solitude and Leadership” has been
taught in the US military, the corporate world, at schools of business, and at the
Aspen Institute. Not that he’s bragging or anything.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Bill was an English professor at Yale from 1998-
2008, where he taught courses in modern British fiction, the Great Books, Indian
fiction, and writing. He is the author of Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets
(Columbia UP, 2004) and of academic articles on George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and
Joseph Conrad. He received his Ph.D. and a few other degrees from Columbia. (Fun
fact: his college major was biology-psychology.) His separation from academia was a
mutual decision.
While in graduate school, Bill also worked as a dance critic, believe it or not. His
reviews appeared in Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, and the quarterlies
DanceView and Dance Ink. From 1996-98 he was New York Dance Correspondent
for The Financial Times, which is an actual position.
Bill grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community in suburban New Jersey before fleeing
to New York City for college. His hobbies include reading, books, and literature. He
lives in Portland, Oregon, which surprises him as much as you.
William Deresiewicz is an essayist and critic, and the author of “Solitude and
Leadership,” an address delivered at West Point in 2009 and widely taught in the
armed forces.
He writes about books, higher education, culture, politics, and anything else he can
get away with. He is the author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught
Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter, published in April by
Penguin Press. He is a Contributing Writer for The Nation and a Contributing Editor
for The New Republic as well as writing a weekly blog, “All Points,” for the American
Scholar. His essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, Bookforum, Slate and The London Review of Books.
His current book project is Excellent Sheep: Education, Leadership, and the Crisis of
American Values.
Bill’s work was nominated for National Magazine Awards in 2008, 2009, and 2011
and the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in
Reviewing in 2010 and 2011. David Brooks also gave it one of his “Sydney” awards
for magazine writing in 2010. It has or will be anthologized in Best American
Nonrequired Reading 2011 (Oct.), The Digital Divide: Writings For and Against
Facebook, YouTube, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking (Sept. 2011), and
about 17 college readers. He has spoken at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cornell,
Pomona College, and West Point. His essay “Solitude and Leadership” has been
taught in the US military, the corporate world, at schools of business, and at the
Aspen Institute. Not that he’s bragging or anything.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Bill was an English professor at Yale from 1998-
2008, where he taught courses in modern British fiction, the Great Books, Indian
fiction, and writing. He is the author of Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets
(Columbia UP, 2004) and of academic articles on George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and
Joseph Conrad. He received his Ph.D. and a few other degrees from Columbia. (Fun
fact: his college major was biology-psychology.) His separation from academia was a
mutual decision.
While in graduate school, Bill also worked as a dance critic, believe it or not. His
reviews appeared in Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, and the quarterlies
DanceView and Dance Ink. From 1996-98 he was New York Dance Correspondent
for The Financial Times, which is an actual position.
Bill grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community in suburban New Jersey before fleeing
to New York City for college. His hobbies include reading, books, and literature. He
lives in Portland, Oregon, which surprises him as much as you.
