Simon Schama: Wordy
Simon Schama is a British broadcaster and scholar who is famous for his limitless energy and grand-scale intellectual undertakings.
He’s a familiar figure on the BBC as well as a professor at Columbia University, and he’s produced multi-volume histories of Britain, documentaries with momentous names like The American Future and a TV series called Simon Schama’s Power of Art. He's a heavyweight scholar, best known for in-depth works on French history, Jewish history, art history and Dutch history. But he’s also a writer of great versatility who has concerned himself - through his columns for the New Yorker and the Financial Times - with a dizzying array of topics, from poetry and baseball to Tom Waits and ice-cream.
His latest book, Wordy, is the product of a life-long love affair - with language. It’s a collection of Schama’s greatest essays, spanning four decades of work, a testament to the flexibility of Schama’s own voice and the broad range of his interests. It’s also a loving tribute to Schama’s writing heroes.
Here, as part of our Mayhem series, the peerless and eloquent Schama joins Ramona Koval at the Athenaeum Theatre.
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Good gracious. He used the word "multifarious", the first time I've come across it since I used it myself in 1973 when I wrote a letter to a car dealer threatening to sue him for selling me a lemon of a car!
this is my homework!!!!!!!!!!!
Well pseuds corner is good for the next three years .
agreed back slaping is that always the best way
A wonderful man.
@terrizucker6511
2 жыл бұрын
Force of nature
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in artificial strawberry flavor cheese is used as a base to give the taste gravitas
@juliusseesaw5450
4 жыл бұрын
Geek. You look like Owen Benjamin.
Schama is such a stuffed shirt. The kind of privileged liberal that many people resent and helped create the Brexit backlash!!
@andythompson3777
2 жыл бұрын
What on earth do you mean by privileged? Schama is from a family of East European immigrants of modest means, a scholarship winner who went to Cambridge, got a starred first and built a career as a working historian. You might as well call David Starkey privileged - he took the same route from similarly modest background. And a stuffed shirt? That term means someone who is pompous, reactionary and deeply conservative. Schama is none of these. Of course your only real issue with Schama is that he is liberal. That's what you can't take. You throw in the extra supposed insults because these are the traditional dog whistles to the non-thinking.
@ajarnwordsmith628
2 жыл бұрын
BS.....
@waynesmith3767
7 ай бұрын
Attacking him for helping create Brexit is just insane.
@andrewashdown3541
Ай бұрын
Verbally incontinent, irredeemably pompous self-loving narcissist
He's like a heady child who can't get enough attention.