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Joseph Epstein



Joseph Epstein is the author of, among other books, Snobbery, Friendship, and Fabulous Small Jews. He has been editor of American Scholar and has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Commentary, Town and Country, and other magazines.

Average rating: 3.74 · 5,175 ratings · 773 reviews · 95 distinct worksSimilar authors
Snobbery: The American Version

3.36 avg rating — 669 ratings — published 2002 — 20 editions
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Fabulous Small Jews

3.97 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
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Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins

3.64 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 2003 — 21 editions
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Friendship: An Expose

3.26 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions
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A Literary Education and Ot...

3.95 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions
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Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit

3.13 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions
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Fred Astaire

3.24 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Narcissus Leaves The Pool

4.16 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
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The Love Song of A. Jerome ...

4.17 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
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Essays in Biography

3.96 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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“Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.”
Joseph Epstein, Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins

“The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.”
Joseph Epstein, Friendship: An Exposé

“All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.”
Joseph Epstein

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