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SUMMARY:Author Talk: James Marcus on Emerson
DESCRIPTION:Author Talk: James Marcus on Emerson\n\n\nJoin author James Mar
 cus in a book reading of his new book: Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portra
 it of Ralph Waldo Emerson\, forthcoming from Princeton University Press on
  March 5\, 2024.\n\nEmerson once served as minister of the Second Church i
 n Boston--the only congregation he ever pastored. In 1970\, Second Church 
 merged with First Church and we proudly continue to honor Emerson as a for
 mer minister.\n\nFrom the Publisher:\n\nToday we know Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 as the poster boy for self-reliance. In Glad to the Bring of Fear\, James 
 Marcus peels back the curtain and reveals a much more three-dimensional fi
 gure.\n\nThis Emerson is a rebel. He is also a reluctant theological semin
 ary student and erstwhile pastor\; a devoted husband and father\; and a pr
 ototypical American celebrity\, one who attracted a cult following on his 
 cross-country lecture circuits and held crowds in thrall with his musings 
 on “the infinitude of the private man.”\n\nDrawing on telling episodes
  from Emerson’s life alongside landmark essays like “Self-Reliance\,
 ” Marcus complicates our understanding of a mythic figure that we though
 t we knew\, and positions Emerson as a true visionary who anticipated the 
 culture wars of contemporary American life.\n\nJames Marcus is an editor\,
  translator\, and critic who has written and lectured widely on Emerson. H
 is essays and criticism have appeared in leading publications such as The 
 New Yorker\, the Times Literary Supplement\, and Harper’s Magazine. He i
 s the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Jugge
 rnaut.\n\nPlease attend\, please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e
 /858930894427?aff=oddtdtcreator
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LOCATION:First Church in Boston\, 66 Marlborough Street\, Boston\, MA\, 021
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