Carlin Romano teaches media theory and journalism courses in the Annenberg School for Communication. He served as Literary Editor and Critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Critic-at Large of the Chronicle of Higher Education, President of the National Book Critics Circle, and a Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. A Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Criticism, he was cited by the Pulitzer Board for “bringing new vitality to the classic essay across a formidable array of topics.” He is the author of America the Philosophical (Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage), a 672-page critical overview of the U.S. as a philosophical culture, described by the New York Times in a Sunday front-page book review as “ambitious…convincing…an encyclopedic survey of the life of the mind in the United States.” He is also the editor of, and a contributor to, Philadelphia Noir (Akashic Books), a collection of original short stories set in Philadelphia.
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