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R. Jay Magill Jr. is an independent scholar, journalist, and illustrator living in Berlin. The author of Chic Ironic Bitterness (2007), his work has appeared in, among others, The American Interest, The Atlantic, The Believer, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the mehr anzeigen Boston Globe. weniger anzeigen
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- R. Jay Magill, Jr. is an independent scholar, essayist, and illustrator
living in Berlin, where he works for the American Academy as a
writer and editor.
His work has appeared in a variety of American and German publications, including the American Prospect, American Interest, Atlantic Monthly, The Believer, Boston Globe, Deutschland Radio, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Print, Spiegel Online, Tagesspiegel, and Weltkunst. He is the staff caricaturist for The American Interest, a book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal, and the host of a radio show on NPR Berlin/Worldwide.
Magill is the author of two books: Chic Ironic Bitterness (Michigan, 2007), winner of a 2008 Eric Hoffer Notable Book in Culture Award and nominated for the 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, and Sincerity: How A Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion that We All Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull) (W.W. Norton, 2012), which was chosen as both a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Wall Street Journal Top-Ten Nonfiction Book of 2012.
Magill holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Hamburg, an MA in art history and philosophy from Stony Brook University, and a BFA/BA in painting, drawing, and philosophy from Kutztown University, in Pennsylvania. He has taught at the University of Lüneburg and at Harvard University, where he received a 2001 Derek Bok Award for Distinction in Teaching.
A Philadelphia native, Magill lives with his wife and son in the Schöneberg neighborhood of Berlin.
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Interesting and provocative with some nice touches of snarky humor. More erudite than I expected.
Perhaps a little self-indulgent for those of us in our 20s and 30s, Magill uses pop references (from VH1 to the Daily Show to Dave Eggers and the Onion) and philosophy's usual suspects to argue that the wide-spread ironically bitter attitude afflicting so many of us today is not an indicator of detachment, but a defense mechanism to protect personal integrity in a screwed-up world. -Emily
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Overall, an okay research-laden read but if you are strapped for time, you can pretty much just jump to the end and read the 11-page epilogue and forego wading through 221-pages of 500 years of history. At the half way mark while reading this one I couldn't help but think that the rather long title is an apt one, especially the last bit about we ALL have something to say (no matter how dull).… (mehr)