George Prochnik

George Prochnik was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in general non-fiction in 2021. He has written for publications such as the New Yorker and the LA Review of Books, and is the editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. ‘Talk America’ is an edited excerpt from I Dream with Open Eyes, forthcoming from Counterpoint Press. His books with Granta include Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem, which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize and was a New York Times ‘Editor’s Choice’.