The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate.
Reader, you have in your hands a motley collection of essays, personal and critical. The advantage of the heterogeneous essay collection by a single author is that it shows you how a particular mind moves through the world. If you are attracted to an essayist's mentality and way of speaking, ideally you can surrender happily to his or her take on various subject matters, the more diverse the.
A long awaited new book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate celebrated essayist, the director of Columbia University s nonfiction program, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.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 NewsA long awaited new book.
Lopate isn’t equally compelling on every page. He opens Portrait Inside My Head with “In Defense of the Miscellaneous Essay Collection,” announcing both the book’s magpie sensibility and his self-consciousness about it. Lopate could write a good essay on the contents of his glove compartment if he needed to, and that sort of facility.
An Interview With Creative Nonfiction Writer Phillip Lopate. The anthology Lopate edited in, The Art of the Personal Essay Doubleday, helped contextualize the genre as part of a global tradition dating back to the classical period. His first book of creative nonfiction, the memoir Being With Children Doubleday,, was an account of his experiences working nyc public schools, where he taught.
Lopate’s charming, straightforward essay makes a strong case, and the ensuing collection further bolsters the notion that film criticism is a distinct, vibrant art unto itself.
River Teeth is committed to exploring human experience in all its variety by combining the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essay, and memoir, with critical essays that examine and illuminate this emerging genre.River Teeth is dedicated to the simple premise that good writing counts and that facts matter. The editors believe that the ability to muster the evocative.
Phillip Lopate has left an indelible mark on the literary world. Through both his own writing and the editing of landmark anthologies, he has reestablished the art of the personal essay. In addition, he’s a film critic, fiction writer, poet, educator, and has been awarded multiple fellowships—including two National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim fellowship. He claims to.