Phillip Lopate
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PHILLIP LOPATE is the author of the essay collections Against Joie de Vivre, Bachelorhood, 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
Edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate
The Contemporary American Essay
Edited by Phillip Lopate
The Golden Age of the American Essay
Phillip Lopate
Waterfront
Phillip Lopate
The Art of the Essay, 1999
Phillip Lopate
Totally, Tenderly, Tragically
Phillip Lopate
Portrait of My Body
Phillip Lopate
The Anchor Essay Annual
Edited by Phillip Lopate
The Art of the Personal Essay
Phillip Lopate
Annotated Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book of Days
Emily Fox Gordon
A Hazard of New Fortunes
William Dean Howells