Topic: Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate on The Art of the Personal Essay

Suite 101 - 455 days ago
An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present (Knopf Doubleday, 1997, ISBN 9780385423397), selected and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate, is a virtual textbook on writing the personal essay.. For example, Lopate mentions that the two essays included by Virginia ...

Notes on Sontag + Barf Manifesto

Time Out New York - 1008 days ago
Susan Sontag tends to inspire either hatchet jobs or hagiography, so it's a rare pleasure to read Phillip Lopate's snappy and smart new meditation on the iconic intellectual, which strips away her mythological patina with acidic eloquence. Even so, Notes ...

Lopate's Sontag

The Brooklyn Rail - 1012 days ago
It is a testament to Susan Sontag's impact as an intellectual figure that since her death in 2004, she has yet to fade from public consciousness: Following last year's publication of the journals and Swimming in a Sea of Death ...

Phillip Lopate

Washington City Paper - 1530 days ago
Film," Phillip Lopate has griped, " In this lecture, Lopate goes "In Search of the Essay Film," a genre that can take many forms. From the impersonal to the autobiographical, the cinematic essay breaks the bonds of the documentary (a term sometimes taken ...