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Join the Forum for the Academy and the Public, the Literary Journalism Program,
and the Center for Storytelling
for a master class with Jonathan M. Katz
Jonathan Myerson Katz is a journalist and author. His first book, The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster (2013), was a PEN Literary Award finalist and won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan Award for the year’s best book on international affairs. He is also a recipient of the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism, was a 2019 National Fellow at New America, and formerly directed the Media & Journalism Initiative at Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. His latest book, Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, was released in January 2022. He writes a regular newsletter, The Racket, available at theracket.news.
This is an in-person event and is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For questions or for more information, contact Patricia Pierson at piersonp@uci.edu.
Part of the Forum's conference Empire Resurgent: Narratives, Nationalisms & New Dystopias