Narcissus Leaves the Pool
by Joseph Epstein
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Read in May, 2008
Epstein's gift for communicating seems so effortless and yet so carefully constructed to evoke empathy in the reader. All of these essays are worth reading ("The Pleasures of Reading," "Grow Up, Why Dontcha?"), but I was especially struck by 2 of his essays. "Will You Still Feed Me?" describes Epstein's experience of aging, both in dealing with a body that doesn't behave as youthfully as it once did and also in interacting with a world that doesn't figure him into ...more
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Wow. Maybe his most impressive collection of essays. Love the ones on name dropping and the aged. Never fails to get you thinking along lines you hadn't before.
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