Joseph Epstein

Gallimaufry (eBook, ePUB)

A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits

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Produktbeschreibung

Joseph Epstein's Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits is the fifth such volume from Axios Press and contains fifty-seven essays. Subjects range from domestic life to current social trends to an appraisal of "contemporary nuttiness." It follows the much-acclaimed Essays in Biography, 2012, A Literary Education and Other Essays, 2014, Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays, 2016, and The Ideal of Culture: Essays, 2018.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hunter Lewis Foundation
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781604191295
• Artikelnr.: 60396937

Autorenporträt

By Joseph Epstein

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Essays
1. The Bookish Life
2. Body without Soul
3. Chicago, Then and Now
4. Jewish Jokes
5. Short Attention Span
6. Intellectual Marines in Little Magazines
7. Why Read Biography?
8. The American Language
9. University of Chicago Days
10. The Frittering Prizes
11. The Tzaddick of the Intellectuals
12. The Menace of Political Correctness
13. Theodor Mommsen
14. Big Julie
15. Our Gladiators
16. Diamonds Are Forever
17. What's the Story?
18. University Presidents
19. Immaturity on Campus
20. Heinrich Heine
21. Joseph Roth
22. Stefan Zweigh
23. Vasily Grossman
24. Evelyn Waugh
25. P. G. Wodehouse
26. Tom Wolfe
27. Susan Sontag, Savant-Idiot
28. Lionel Trilling
29. Proust's Duchesses
30. Denis Diderot
31. Isaiah Berlin
32. Johnson-Boswell
33. Stop Your Blubbering
34. George Gershwin
35. Nelson Algren
36. Essayism
37. Alcibiades
38. Big Bill Tilden
39. The Semicolon
40. The Meritocracy
Bits and Pieces
41. Close Shaves
42. Location, Location, Location
43. Milt Rosenberg
44. Only a Hobby
45. Hello, Dolly
46. Dirty Words
47. See Me Out
48. Shabby Chic
49. Thoughts and Prayers
50. Table It
51. Don't Hide Your Eyes, Weaponize
52. Does Not Hug
53. In Bad Taste or Not, I'll Keep My Comic Sans
54. Yidiosyncrasis
55. Sinfood
56. A Nobel Prize for Marriage
57. Hold the Memorial
Edward Redux
58. Edward Redux
Index