Phillip Lopate, author portrait
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Phillip Lopate

PHILLIP LOPATE is the author of the essay collections Against Joie de VivreBachelorhood, and Portrait of My Body. He has also written the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of a Summer. Lopate is the editor of The Art of the Personal Essay and the Library of America's Writing New York, as well as the series editor of The Art of the Essay. His film criticism appears regularly in The New York Times and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Phillip Lopate's The Glorious American Essay was published by Pantheon Books in November 2020.
The Glorious American Essay
The Contemporary American Essay
The Golden Age of the American Essay
Waterfront
The Art of the Essay, 1999
Totally, Tenderly, Tragically
Portrait of My Body
The Anchor Essay Annual
The Art of the Personal Essay

Books

The Glorious American Essay
The Contemporary American Essay
The Golden Age of the American Essay
Waterfront
The Art of the Essay, 1999
Totally, Tenderly, Tragically
Portrait of My Body
The Anchor Essay Annual
The Art of the Personal Essay

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