Education
He attended The Fieldston School in New York, the University of Pennsylvania, and also studied literature at Columbia University and the University of Paris.
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Wyatt Mason
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Career
Mason was raised in Manhattan. Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Harper"s Magazine, for which he wrote the blog "Sentences" from 2008-2009. He has also written for The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The New Yorker and The London Review of Books.
He taught in the graduate writing program at Bennington College from 2009 to 2011 and now teaches at Bard College where he is Senior Fellow of The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities.
On Ramakrishna Narayan, from The New Yorker
on Javier Marias, from The New Yorker
on David Foster Wallace, from The London Review of Books
on David Foster Wallace, from The New York Review of Books
on Satire, from The New York Times Magazine
on Louis-Ferdinand Céline from The New York Review of Books
on Leonard Michaels from The Nation
Poets and Writers Magazine.
Achievements
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Mason won a National Magazine Award in 2006 for his writing in Harper"s Magazine. "At once compassionate and ruthless," the judges wrote, "Wyatt Mason seeks an understanding of his subject with endless erudition and a singular, tireless focus on quality. His criticism moves from the specific to bigger game – a defense of modernism and originality – and he’s not afraid to confront the authors with his findings.” Mason received a National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation the same year. The NBCC called Mason "a critic of unrelenting energy and tough standards. He has exposed scholarly plagiarism, rescued dismissed writers from ignorance and oblivion, smartly scolded faddish novelists..and argued that many of us continue to confuse substance and surface in contemporary writers" work. Masterful at placing writers in dialogue with other writers..he always makes a case for new books he wants people to appreciate, embrace and struggle with.".
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Mason won a National Magazine Award in 2006 for his writing in Harper's Magazine. "At once compassionate and ruthless," the judges wrote, "Wyatt Mason seeks an understanding of his subject with endless erudition and a singular, tireless focus on quality. His criticism moves from the specific to bigger game – a defense of modernism and originality – and he’s not afraid to confront the authors with his findings.” Mason received a National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation the same year. The NBCC called Mason "a critic of unrelenting energy and tough standards. He has exposed scholarly plagiarism, rescued dismissed writers from ignorance and oblivion, smartly scolded faddish novelists...and argued that many of us continue to confuse substance and surface in contemporary writers' work. Masterful at placing writers in dialogue with other writers...he always makes a case for new books he wants people to appreciate, embrace and struggle with."Mason won a National Magazine Award in 2006 for his writing in Harper's Magazine. "At once compassionate and ruthless," the judges wrote, "Wyatt Mason seeks an understanding of his subject with endless erudition and a singular, tireless focus on quality. His criticism moves from the specific to bigger game – a defense of modernism and originality – and he’s not afraid to confront the authors with his findings.” Mason received a National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation the same year. The NBCC called Mason "a critic of unrelenting energy and tough standards. He has exposed scholarly plagiarism, rescued dismissed writers from ignorance and oblivion, smartly scolded faddish novelists...and argued that many of us continue to confuse substance and surface in contemporary writers' work. Masterful at placing writers in dialogue with other writers...he always makes a case for new books he wants people to appreciate, embrace and struggle with."