Portrait Inside My Head By Phillip Lopate

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Title	:	Portrait Inside My Head
Author	:	Phillip Lopate
Format	:	Hardcover
Page	:	304 pages
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In this stunning new collection of personal essays, distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and brings us on an invigorating and thoughtful journey through memory, culture, parenthood, the trials of marriage both young and old, and an extraordinary look at New York s storied past and present.Opening with his family life In this stunning new collection of personal essays, distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and brings us on an invigorating and thoughtful journey through memory, culture, parenthood, the trials of marriage both young and old, and an extraordinary look at New York s storied past and present.Opening with his family life, Lopate invites us first into his rough and tumble childhood on the streets of Brooklyn, learning the all important art of cowardice From there, he takes us to the ball game to discuss the trouble with ex baseball fans to high tea at the Plaza to the theater to dissect Virginia Woolf s opinion that film should keep its hands off literature and to visit his brother, radio personality Leonard Lopate, offering a rare glimpse into the unique sibling rivalry between two men at the top of their fields.Throughout this rich, ambitious, deliciously readable collection, Lopate s easy, conversational style pushes his piercing insights to new depths, celebrating the life of the mind its triumphs and limitations and illuminating memories and feelings both distant and immediate The result is a charming and spirited new book from the undisputed master of the form

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about Author

Phillip Lopate is the author of three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir of his teaching experiences, and a collection of his movie criticism He has edited the following anthologies, and his essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, The Paris Review, Harper s, Vogue, E Phillip Lopate is the author of three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir of his teaching experiences, and a collection of his movie criticism He has edited the following anthologies, and his essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, The Paris Review, Harper s, Vogue, Esquire, New York Times, Harvard Educational Review, Conde Nast Traveler, and many other periodicals and anthologies He has been 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 After working with children for twelve years as a writer in the schools, he taught creative writing and literature at Fordham, Cooper Union, University of Houston, and New York University He currently holds the John Cranford Adams Chair at HofstraUniversity, and also teaches in the MFA graduate programs at Columbia, the New School and Bennington

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Title: Portrait Inside My Head
Posted by:Phillip Lopate
Published :2016-03-08T12:33+01:00
In this stunning new collection of personal essays, distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and

Portrait Inside My Head

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