O ne day in the 1980s, the writer Phillip Lopate ’64CC stood before the bookcase of a vacation home he had rented for the summer, looking for something to read. His eyes fell on a volume by William Hazlitt, and though Lopate wasn’t deeply familiar with the Romantic Age essayist and critic, he pulled the book from the shelf and carried it outside to a hammock.
Phillip Lopate’s last “Full Disclosure” column appeared on May 26. For the next several weeks, we will republish our favorites from this year. There are few things as mystifying and unnerving to me as the dying out of a friendship. I find myself brooding about the few friendships of mine that have cooled.Phillip Lopate is the author of three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir of his teaching experiences, and a collection of his movie criticism. He has edited the following anthologies, and his essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared in The Best American Short.Phillip Lopate on Making Your Essay Your Own. Author and Columbia University professor Phillip Lopate sat down with University Writing lecturer Tana Wojczuk in front of an audience of University Writing students for a lively and thought-provoking discussion on the art and craft of essay writing.
Essays and criticism on Phillip Lopate - JOSEPH McLELLAN. for Eric and Jack have enjoyed a friendship so long and intense that it practically amounts to platonic homosexuality (complete with.
Phillip Lopate, considered by many to be one of the most important essayists of our time, discusses the controversies surrounding creative nonfiction, his own essay-writing process, and the ultimate quality he looks for in nonfiction—an interesting mind at work on the page.
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Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as one of our best personal essayists (Dallas Morning News). Complete summary of Phillip Lopate's The Art of the Personal Essay. eNotes. of essays compiled by Phillip Lopate,. table of contents, the essays are.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 16, 1943, Philip Lopate received a bachelor's degree at Columbia University and a PhD at Union Graduate School. Of his work, the poet Marie Ponsot writes, “The pleasures of Lopate’s poems are urban and urbane. He takes notice, he reports, he has a heart.
The editor, Phillip Lopate, is known as both a teacher and author of the personal essays, and has compiled some of the best examples of the form throughout history. A particular joy is his lengthy introduction, which sets out to describe the nature of the essay and provide some preliminary guidance on how to use the book as a learning resource.
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Phillip Lopate: My favorite book of Susan Sontag's—not necessarily her best book but the one I like best—is Under the Sign of Saturn.I like it partly because it is free of the aggressive, badgering tone of her aesthetic polemics, and is instead a fairly unified suite of sympathetic biographical portraits of male melancholics, her heroes of the intellect (Paul Goodman, Antonin Artaud.
Phillip Lopate has 64 books on Goodreads with 24468 ratings. Phillip Lopate’s most popular book is The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the C.
I interviewed Phillip Lopate at his Brooklyn home, which he mentions in “Brooklyn the Unknowable,” one of the essays in his new collection, Portrait Inside My Head.There, he describes his reluctance to leave Manhattan for Brooklyn: “Brooklyn was the primeval ooze out of which I had crawled in order to make something of myself.”.
Our conversation in workshop today centered on Phillip Lopate’s craft article, “Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself Into a Character,” which appears in Writing Creative Nonfiction, edited by Carolyn Forche and Philip Gerard.Lopate points out the importance of the essayist becoming a round character in his or her essay, dramatizing the writer’s complexities and.
In this stunning new collection of personal essays, distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and brings us on an invigorating and thoughtful journey through memory, culture, parenthood, the trials of marriage both young and old, and an extraordinary look at New York’s storied past and present.
Essays and criticism on Phillip Lopate - Aram Saroyan. The Daily Round is dedicated to Pasternak, and the title poem to Mandelstem, and the book as a whole explores the malaise of the unattached.
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