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    To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

    Phillip Lopate (Columbia University)

    A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Lopate–the celebrated essayist and the director of Columbia University’s nonfiction program. He provides the nuts and bolts, offering a refreshing new master…

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    A Mother’s Tale

    Phillip Lopate

    Creative memoirist Phillip Lopate interviewed his mother about her life as a mother, war factory worker, candy store owner, community organizer, clerk, actress, and singer–and as a melodramatic dissatisfied wife…

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    Portrait Inside My Head

    Phillip Lopate

    In this revealing collection of personal essays, renowned essayist, Phillip Lopate, shares his unique views on the big subjects of parenthood, marriage, sex, friendship, and ‘the nail parings of daily…

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    My Affair with Art House Cinema

    Phillip Lopate

    My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Phillip Lopate's selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating, tantalizing, and beguiling-and sometimes…

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    My Affair with Art House Cinema

    Phillip Lopate

    My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Phillip Lopate's selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating, tantalizing, and beguiling-and sometimes…

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    The Ordering Mirror: Readers and Contexts

    Phillip Lopate

    A collection of lectures from leading writers and critics, including Nadine Gordimer ( Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics ), Cynthia Ozick ( What Henry James Knew )…

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    The Art of the Essay, 1999

    Phillip Lopate

    In this newest installment of The Art of the Essay series, acclaimed essayist Lopate has selected and introduced the year’s most notable, influential, or surprising essays published during the last…

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    The Anchor Essay Annual: The Best of 1997

    Phillip Lopate

    Following the critical and commercial success of his Art of the Personal Essay , Phillip Lopate inaugurates The Anchor Essay Annual series with a diverse body of work by authors…

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    Portrait of My Body

    Phillip Lopate

    Phillip Lopate’s richest and most ambitious book yet–the final volume of a trilogy that began with Bachelorhood and Against Joie de Vivre–Portrait of My Body is a powerful memoir in…

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    Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan

    Phillip Lopate

    East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan’s waterfront are both celebrated and secret-hidden in plain sight. In his brilliant exploration…

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    The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present

    Phillip Lopate

    A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith-selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate

    Not only…

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    The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1976

    Phillip Lopate

    A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form. AN ANCHOR ORIGINAL.

    A one-of-a-kind…

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    The Contemporary American Essay

    Phillip Lopate

    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…

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    Notes on Sontag

    Phillip Lopate

    Setting out from middle-class California to invent herself as a European-style intellectual, Sontag raised the bar of critical discourse and offered up a model of a freethinking, imaginative, and sensual…

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    American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents Until Now: A Library of America Special Publication

    Some of todays greatest film critics and notable American writers weigh in on a range of cinematic experiences, from Carl Sandburg writing on the classic silent film The Cabinet of…

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    The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present

    Phillip Lopate

    A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.

    Not only an education but a joy…

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    Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays

    Phillip Lopate

    By turns humorous, learned, celebratory, and elegiac, the author displays a keen intelligence and a flair for language that turn bits of common, everyday life into resonant narrative. He maintains…

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    The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

    Phillip Lopate

    Bringing together many great reflections on the human condition and the peculiarities of daily life, a unique collection of more than seventy-five essays ranges from classical predecessors of the genre…

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    A Year and a Day

    Phillip Lopate

    A compelling celebration of the power of the essay, this collection of 47 writings offers a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Montaigne as he reflects on the miscellany…

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    At the End of the Day: Selected Poems and an Introductory Essay

    Phillip Lopate (Columbia University)

    Poetry. Though known today mostly as an essayist, Phillip Lopate worked seriously as a poet for fifteen years during the 1970s and 1980s. As Henri Cole writes: Phillip Lopate may…

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    The Prince Of Minor Writers

    Max Beerbohm,Phillip Lopate

    AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL

    Called by Virginia Woolf othe princeo of essayists and praised by F. W. Dupee for a owhim of iron, cleverness amounting to genius,o Max Beerbohm himself…

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    Essays of Elia

    Charles Lamb

    Charles Lamb, one of the most engaging personal essayists of all time, began publishing his Elia essays in the London Magazine in 1820; they were so immediately popular that a…

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    Portrait Inside My Head: Essays

    Phillip Lopate (Columbia University)

    From the distinguished essayist, film critic, and poet, a lively, tender, and provocative new collection celebrating the life of the mind, from challenges of a Brooklyn childhood to the pleasures…

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    Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies

    Jason Vest

    Explores how filmmakers as diverse as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, and Richard Linklater have each, in their turn, expanded, extrapolated, and diverged from Philip K. Dick’s fiction when…

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    Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

    Richard Rodriguez

    The son of Mexican immigrants explores the educational process and rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors.

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    Brooklyn Photographs Now

    Marla Hamburg Kennedy,Phillip Phillip Lopate

    A large and unique collection of contemporary photography about ever-changing Brooklyn and its myriad communities, from Coney Island, to Prospect Park, to Red Hook, to Williamsburg, by emerging and established…

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    A Hazard of New Fortunes

    William Dean Howells

    Set against the backdrop of late-19th-century New York, this is the story of a self-made millionaire and a fervent social revolutionary. The novel is both a portrait of the American…

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    Lost Waterfront: The Decline and Rebirth of Manhattan’s Western Shore

    For more than a century, the Hudson River piers in Greenwich Village bustled with maritime commerce that made New York the greatest port in the country. By the 1960s, after…

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    Every Father’s Daughter: Twenty-Four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers

    What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably…

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    The Annotated Emerson

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Emerson remains one of America’s least understood writers, having spawned neither school nor follower. Those wishing to discover or reacquaint themselves with Emerson’s writings but who have not known where…

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