NB&P: Ronnie Grinberg - Write Like A Man

The hosts chat with Dr. Grinberg about her recent book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals (2024, Princeton University Press). This book follows an influential group of critics and writers in the post-WWII period who forged a pugilistic writing style as distinctively American, Jewish, and masculine. Profiling important figures like Norman Mailer, Hannah Arendt, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Mary McCarthy, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, and Irving Howe, Grinberg describes how their construction of Jewish masculinity helped to propel American Jews from outsiders to insiders and normalize a combative and intellectually grounded vision of Jewish manhood. Interview by Forum Public Humanities Intern Mack Krebs.