
The Contemporary American Essay
$35.24
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2021
Summary
A dazzling anthology of essays by some of America’s best writers, drawn from the past quarter century.
A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century—from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and Samantha Irby—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate.
The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780525567325 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0525567321 |
| Author: | Phillip Lopate |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Anchor Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 132mm |
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Critics Review
“What’s marvelous is the way Lopate’s anthologies … manage to be not only comprehensive monuments of deep expertise, but such continuously fresh and thrilling reading companions.” —Jonathan Lethem, author of The Feral Detective
“Phillip Lopate is one of the most brilliant and original essayists now working.” —Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
About The Author
Phillip Lopate
PHILLIP LOPATE is the author of To Show and to Tell- The Craft of Literary Nonfiction and four essay collections, Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, and Portrait Inside My Head. He is the editor of the anthologies The Glorious American Essay, The Golden Age of the American Essay, The Art of the Personal Essay, Writing New York, and American Movie Critics. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. He is a professor of writing at Columbia University’s nonfiction MFA program and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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