The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present by Phillip LopateRequirements: .ePUB Reader, 7 MBOverview: A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.Many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves–sometimes critically–to American […]
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate (Editor)Requirements: .PDF reader, 20mbOverview: For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, […]
Portrait Inside My Head: Essays by Phillip LopateRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3.3 MbOverview: “Immensely readable essays.…[Phillip Lopate] remains ‘a storyteller at heart’ who can liven up any subject with nimble anecdotes from his life.…Delightful” (The New York Times Book Review). In this stunning collection of personal essays chosen as one of The New Yorker’s “Books to […]
Getting Personal: Selected Essays by Phillip LopateRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 1.93 MBOverview: From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phillip Lopate’s career as an essayist, teacher, film critic, father, son, and husband. Witty, insightful, deeply meditative, and self-revelatory, with his […]
Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan by Phillip LopateRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4 MbOverview: East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattans waterfront are both celebrated and secrethidden in plain sight. In his brilliant exploration of this defining yet neglected shoreline, personal essayist Philip Lopate also recovers a […]