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. 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…mehr
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.
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.
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 LouiseGlück 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
PHILLIP LOPATE is the author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction and four essay collections, Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, and Portrait Inside My Head. He is the editor of the anthologies The Glorious American Essay, The Golden Age of the American Essay, The Art of the Personal Essay, Writing New York, and American Movie Critics. 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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Introduction by Phillip Lopate
I Am the Happiness of This World by Hilton Als One Summer by Nicholson Baker Portrait of the Bagel as a Young Man by Thomas Beller "Brave Face" by Sven Birkerts Excerpt from "On Immunity" by Eula Biss Tactless by Mary Cappello Decreation by Anne Carson Home Alone by Terry Castle Girl by Alexander Chee Black Body by Teju Cole Greedy Sleep by Bernard Cooper The Doctor Is a Woman by Sloane Crosley Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio Matricide by Meghan Daum Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (with particular reference to Doughnut Plant doughnuts) by Geoff Dyer CID LAX BOG by Lina Ferreira Doing No Harm: Some Thoughts on Reading and Writing in the Age of Umbrage by Lynn Freed The Case of the Angry Daughter by Rivka Galchen Scat by Ross Gay On Revenge by Louise Glück Faculty Wife by Emily Fox Gordon Other People s Secrets by Patricia Hampl The Aquarium by Aleksandar Hemon The Terror of Love by Samantha Irby The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Negroland by Margo Jefferson Domestic Gulags by Laura Kipnis Ann: Death and the Maiden by David Lazar Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li Experience Necessary by Phillip Lopate The Invitation by Barry Lopez Bodies in Motion and at Rest by Thomas Lynch Draft No. 4 by John McPhee "Failure: A Meditation, Another Iteration (With Interruptions)" by Anders Monson Live Through That?! by Eileen Myles Excerpt from The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Homeschool by Meghan O Gieblyn A Visit to San Quentin by Joyce Carol Oates Busted in New York by Darryl Pinckney Against Gunmetal by Lia Purpura Beeper World by Karen Russell This Old House by David Sedaris &l
I Am the Happiness of This World by Hilton Als One Summer by Nicholson Baker Portrait of the Bagel as a Young Man by Thomas Beller "Brave Face" by Sven Birkerts Excerpt from "On Immunity" by Eula Biss Tactless by Mary Cappello Decreation by Anne Carson Home Alone by Terry Castle Girl by Alexander Chee Black Body by Teju Cole Greedy Sleep by Bernard Cooper The Doctor Is a Woman by Sloane Crosley Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio Matricide by Meghan Daum Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (with particular reference to Doughnut Plant doughnuts) by Geoff Dyer CID LAX BOG by Lina Ferreira Doing No Harm: Some Thoughts on Reading and Writing in the Age of Umbrage by Lynn Freed The Case of the Angry Daughter by Rivka Galchen Scat by Ross Gay On Revenge by Louise Glück Faculty Wife by Emily Fox Gordon Other People s Secrets by Patricia Hampl The Aquarium by Aleksandar Hemon The Terror of Love by Samantha Irby The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Negroland by Margo Jefferson Domestic Gulags by Laura Kipnis Ann: Death and the Maiden by David Lazar Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li Experience Necessary by Phillip Lopate The Invitation by Barry Lopez Bodies in Motion and at Rest by Thomas Lynch Draft No. 4 by John McPhee "Failure: A Meditation, Another Iteration (With Interruptions)" by Anders Monson Live Through That?! by Eileen Myles Excerpt from The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Homeschool by Meghan O Gieblyn A Visit to San Quentin by Joyce Carol Oates Busted in New York by Darryl Pinckney Against Gunmetal by Lia Purpura Beeper World by Karen Russell This Old House by David Sedaris &l
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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. Jonathan Lethem, author of The Feral Detective
Phillip Lopate is one of the most brilliant and original essayists now working. Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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