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The Contemporary American Essay - by Phillip Lopate (Paperback)

The Contemporary American Essay - by  Phillip Lopate (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably adaptable form and a treat for anyone who loves fantastic writing"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century--from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and Samantha Irby--selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate.</b> <p/>The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. <i>The Contemporary American Essay</i> is a monument to a remarkably adaptable form and a treat for anyone who loves fantastic writing. <p/> Hilton Als - Nicholson Baker - Thomas Beller - Sven Birkerts - Eula Biss - Mary Cappello - Anne Carson - Terry Castle - Alexander Chee - Teju Cole - Bernard Cooper - Sloane Crosley - Charles D'Ambrosio - Meghan Daum - Brian Doyle - Geoff Dyer - Lina Ferreira - Lynn Freed - Rivka Galchen - Ross Gay - Louise Glück - Emily Fox Gordon - Patricia Hampl - Aleksandar Hemon - Samantha Irby - Leslie Jamison - Margo Jefferson - Laura Kipnis - David Lazar - Yiyun Li - Phillip Lopate - Barry Lopez - Thomas Lynch - John McPhee - Ander Monson - Eileen Myles - Maggie Nelson - Meghan O'Gieblyn - Joyce Carol Oates - Darryl Pinckney - Lia Purpura - Karen Russell - David Sedaris - Shifra Sharlin - David Shields - Floyd Skloot - Rebecca Solnit - Clifford Thompson - Wesley Yang <p/>An Anchor Original.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"What's marvelous is the way Lopate's anthologies . . . manage to be not only comprehensive monuments of deep expertise, but such continuously fresh and thrilling reading companions." --<b>Jonathan Lethem, author of <i>The Feral Detective</i></b> <p/> "Phillip Lopate is one of the most brilliant and original essayists now working." --<b>Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>PHILLIP LOPATE is the author of <i>To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction</i> and four essay collections, <i>Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, </i>and <i>Portrait Inside My Head</i>. He is the editor of the anthologies <i>The Glorious American Essay, The Golden Age of the American Essay, The Art of the Personal Essay, Writing New York, </i> and <i>American Movie Critics</i>. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. He is a professor of writing at Columbia University's nonfiction MFA program and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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