Jon Baskin's guest appearances

Jon Baskin

Concavity Show

Liberal Learning for Life @ UD

Two Guys One Book

Writers and Writings

Jessica Hooten Wilson

Toni Morrison

Adam Levin

Frederick Douglass

Ross Douthat

Katie Prejean McGrady

Wendell Berry

Alison Milbank

David Foster Wallace

Thomas Esposito

Steve Erickson

Don DeLillo

Ryan Anderson

Courtney Maum

Andrew Miller

OwlTail

I like them. I work on them, and I read them. Because there’s a certain magic to the way a magazine is more than just words or just pictures. It’s not just an aesthetic: a magazine can host a whole conversation, bringing ideas big and small, conflicting and complementary into view. That’s what good magazines do. Good magazines like The Point. But it’s not easy. Just ask the magazine’s founding editor. 

I like them. I work on them, and I read them. Because there’s a certain magic to the way a magazine is more than just words or just pictures. It’s not just an aesthetic: a magazine can host a whole conversation, bringing ideas big and small, conflicting and complementary into view. That’s what good magazines do. Good magazines like The Point. But it’s not easy. Just ask the magazine’s founding editor.

15. The Point of Magazine Making | Talking about editing and magazines (and editing magazines) with The Point’s Jon Baskin

Jon Baskin is a founding editor of The Point: A Magazine of the Examined Life and Associate Director for the Program in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at The New School for Social Research. We discuss why The Point magazine should be read by anyone interested in thinking about their life in a serious, critical way, what Allan Bloom was right and wrong about, and whether it’s really true that technology is necessarily corrosive of intellectual life and encounter. Jon Baskin mentions several articles in our conversation; links below: “The Problem of Force,” by Scott Beauchamp, on his experiences in war in conversation with Simone Weil and the Iliad: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-problem-of-force-simone-weil/Agnes Callard, on anger in conversation with the Old Testament: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/anger-management-agnes-callard/“No Such Thing,” where the death of Margaret Thatcher brings Jonny Thakkar back to Adam Smith and Plato on whether there is such a thing as society: https://thepointmag.com/politics/no-such-thing/“Lovers in the Hands of a Patient God,” on American love by way of Jonathan Edwards, William James, and Hollywood romantic comedies: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/lovers-in-the-hands-of-a-patient-god/“Against Honeymoons,” a good example of taking a seemingly frivolous contemporary phenomenon very seriously: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/against-honeymoons/“Steroids, Baseball, America”: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/steroids-baseball-america/********************************Free video series: The Person: Action and Influence: www.catholicfaithandculture.udallas.edu/landi…uenceLiberal Learning for Life @ University of Dallas: udallas.edu/liberal-learning/​Twitter: twitter.com/lib_learning_ud​Instagram: www.instagram.com/liberallearningforlife/Facebook: www.facebook.com/liberallearningforlife

Jon Baskin is a founding editor of The Point: A Magazine of the Examined Life and Associate Director for the Program in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at The New School for Social Research. We discuss why The Point magazine should be read by anyone interested in thinking about their life in a serious, critical way, what Allan Bloom was right and wrong about, and whether it’s really true that technology is necessarily corrosive of intellectual life and encounter. Jon Baskin mentions several articles in our conversation; links below: “The Problem of Force,” by Scott Beauchamp, on his experiences in war in conversation with Simone Weil and the Iliad: <a href="https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-problem-of-force-simone-weil/Agnes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-problem-of-force-simone-weil/Agnes</a> Callard, on anger in conversation with the Old Testament: <a href="https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/anger-management-agnes-callard/“No" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/anger-management-agnes-callard/“No</a> Such Thing,” where the death of Margaret Thatcher brings Jonny Thakkar back to Adam Smith and Plato on whether there is such a thing as society: <a href="https://thepointmag.com/politics/no-such-thing/“Lovers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thepointmag.com/politics/no-such-thing/“Lovers</a> in the Hands of a Patient God,” on American love by way of Jonathan Edwards, William James, and Hollywood romantic comedies: <a href="https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/lovers-in-the-hands-of-a-patient-god/“Against" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/lovers-in-the-hands-of-a-patient-god/“Against</a> Honeymoons,” a good example of taking a seemingly frivolous contemporary phenomenon very seriously: <a href="https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/against-honeymoons/“Steroids" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/against-honeymoons/“Steroids</a>, Baseball, America”: <a href="https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/steroids-baseball-america/********************************Free" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/steroids-baseball-america/********************************Free</a> video series: The Person: Action and Influence: <a href="http://www.catholicfaithandculture.udallas.edu/landi…uenceLiberal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.catholicfaithandculture.udallas.edu/landi…uenceLiberal</a> Learning for Life @ University of Dallas: <a href="http://udallas.edu/liberal-learning/​Twitter:" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">udallas.edu/liberal-learning/​Twitter:</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/lib_learning_ud​Instagram:" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter.com/lib_learning_ud​Instagram:</a> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/liberallearningforlife/Facebook:" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/liberallearningforlife/Facebook:</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/liberallearningforlife" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/liberallearningforlife</a>

25. The Point: A Magazine of the Examined Life with Jon Baskin

In Episode 52, we talk to Jon Baskin, author of the exciting new book Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace. Topics of exploration in the conversation include Freud, Wittgenstein, and hating Ben Lerner (or not).    You can find out more details and buy Jon's book here, through Stanford University Press: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29316 Jon’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BaskinJon The Point Twitter and website: https://twitter.com/the_point_mag &amp; https://t.co/QV9prYnta5?amp=1 On The Hatred of Literature - https://thepointmag.com/letter/on-the-hatred-of-literature/   Contact Us:  Twitter - https://twitter.com/ConcavityShow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/concavityshow/ Email - concavityshow@gmail.com Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/concavityshow Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/concavityshow/

In Episode 52, we talk to Jon Baskin, author of the exciting new book Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace. Topics of exploration in the conversation include Freud, Wittgenstein, and hating Ben Lerner (or not).  You can find out more details and buy Jon's book here, through Stanford University Press: <a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29316" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29316</a> Jon’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/BaskinJon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/BaskinJon</a> The Point Twitter and website: <a href="https://twitter.com/the_point_mag" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/the_point_mag</a> &amp; <a href="https://t.co/QV9prYnta5?amp=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://t.co/QV9prYnta5?amp=1</a> On The Hatred of Literature - <a href="https://thepointmag.com/letter/on-the-hatred-of-literature/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thepointmag.com/letter/on-the-hatred-of-literature/</a> Contact Us:  Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/ConcavityShow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ConcavityShow</a> Instagram - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/concavityshow/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/concavityshow/</a> Email - <a href="mailto:concavityshow@gmail.com">concavityshow@gmail.com</a> Patreon - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/concavityshow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/concavityshow</a> Facebook - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/concavityshow/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/concavityshow/</a>

Episode 52 - Discussing David Foster Wallace with Jon Baskin