George Prochnik, Author . Other Press $29.95 (471p) ISBN 978-1-59051-182-4
Descended from Boston Brahmins on his mother's side and Viennese Jews on his father's, Prochnik is well equipped to tell the story of the culture clash and strange synergy between the sardonic Sigmund Freud and pioneering American...
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George Prochnik, Author . Doubleday $25 (342p) ISBN 978-0-385-52888-7
Silence is golden, but noise is more stimulating in this smart if occasionally overearnest rumination on our modern soundscape. Prochnik (Putnam Camp
) is at his best investigating the culture of noise—the traffic, TV, and iPods—that...
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George Prochnik. Other Press, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59051-612-6
Drawing on archival and personal material, Prochnik (Putnam Camp) examines the life of exiled Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) to shed light on the affliction of exile that redefined the lives and works of many intellectuals during WWII....
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George Prochnik. Other Press, $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-1-59051-776-5
Prochnik (The Impossible Exile) effectively and movingly combines a nuanced biography of Gershom Scholem, who “singlehandedly created an academic discipline [Jewish Mysticism] out of an obscure theological tradition [study of the Kabbalah],” with a...
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George Prochnik. Counterpoint, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64009-547-2
A man flees Trumpistan in this overwrought meditation on politics and belonging. Prochnik (Heinrich Heine) recounts the buildup to his family’s 2018 move from Brooklyn to London, an event prompted by disenchantment with his soulless PR copywriting...
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