The Contemporary American Essay

ISBN-13: 9780525567325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 640 str.

Phillip Lopate

Recenzje

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 

Spis treści

Introduction by Phillip Lopate

I Am the Happiness of This World by Hilton Als
One Summer by Nicholson Baker
Portrait of the Bagel as a Young Man by Thomas Beller 
"Brave Face" by Sven Birkerts       
Excerpt from "On Immunity" by Eula Biss     
Tactless by Mary Cappello          
Decreation by Anne Carson         
Home Alone by Terry Castle       
Girl by Alexander Chee        
Black Body by Teju Cole
Greedy Sleep by Bernard Cooper
The Doctor Is a Woman by Sloane Crosley      
Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio            
Matricide by Meghan Daum        
Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (with particular reference to Doughnut Plant doughnuts) by Geoff Dyer          
CID LAX BOG by Lina Ferreira                
Doing No Harm: Some Thoughts on Reading and Writing in the Age of Umbrage by Lynn Freed 
The Case of the Angry Daughter by Rivka Galchen      
Scat by Ross Gay    
On Revenge by Louise Glück      
Faculty Wife by Emily Fox Gordon    
Other People s Secrets by Patricia Hampl          
The Aquarium by Aleksandar Hemon     
The Terror of Love by Samantha Irby    
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison    
Negroland by Margo Jefferson    
Domestic Gulags by Laura Kipnis          
Ann: Death and the Maiden by David Lazar           
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li      
Experience Necessary by Phillip Lopate            
The Invitation by Barry Lopez    
Bodies in Motion and at Rest by Thomas Lynch           
Draft No. 4 by John McPhee        
"Failure: A Meditation, Another Iteration (With Interruptions)" by Anders Monson
Live Through That?! by Eileen Myles      
Excerpt from The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson   
Homeschool by Meghan O Gieblyn        
A Visit to San Quentin by Joyce Carol Oates    
Busted in New York by Darryl Pinckney           
Against Gunmetal by Lia Purpura        
Beeper World by Karen Russell  
This Old House by David Sedaris           
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O autorze

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.