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Getting Personal: Selected Essays
From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phillip Lopate's career as an essayist, teacher, film critic, father, son, and husband. Witty, insightful, deeply meditative, and self-revelatory, with his characteristic candor and curmudgeonly charm, he explores himself, his life, his...more
Paperback, 416 pages
Published
November 3rd 2004
by Basic Books
(first published 2003)
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I had read only Lopate's essay "Against joie de vivre" which I found clever and insightful. But I was slightly disappointed(for reasons undefined)with "Getting Personal", as these essays go in chronological order of his life, hence are more about his personal development. But then all essays really are, aren't they? For some strange reason I did not even like to see a photo of Lopate in the back of the book. Kind of like discovering that the sexy radio voice does not belong t...more
This is a collection of essays that spans Philip Lopate's career. A couple of my favorites are "Against Joie de Vivre" and "Chechkov for Children". I believe this book also includes an essay about the birth of Lopate's daughter, which was quite memorable.
Completed at long last. A good read, for sure, but it required much downtime between essays.
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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...more
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