Phillip Lopate

Against Joie de Vivre

Personal Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

Phillip Lopate is the director of the nonfiction graduate program and teaches writing at Columbia University. He is the author and editor of numerous books including Portrait Inside My Head: Essays,¿To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, and¿Notes on¿Sontag.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780803222731
• ISBN-10: 0803222734
• Artikelnr.: 23596288

Autorenporträt

Phillip Lopate is the director of the nonfiction graduate program and teaches writing at Columbia University. He is the author and editor of numerous books including Portrait Inside My Head: Essays, To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, and Notes on Sontag.

Inhaltsangabe

I.
Samson and Delilah and the Kids
Against Joie de Vivre
Art of the Creep
A Nonsmoker with a Smoker
What Happened to the Personal Essay
II.
Never Live Above Your Landlord
Revisionist Nuptials
Anticipation of La Notte: The "Heroic" Age of Moviegoing
Modern Friendships
A Passion for Waiting
III.
Chekhov for Children
On Shaving a Beard
Only Make Believe: Some Observations on Architectural Language
Houston Hide-and-Seek
Carlos: Evening in the City of Friends
IV.
Upstairs Neighbors
Waiting for the Book to Come Out
Reflections on Subletting
Suicide of a Schoolteacher