Joseph Epstein (1) (1937–)
Autore di Snobbery: The American Version
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Sull'Autore
Joseph Epstein is the author of the best-selling Snobbery and Friendship, as well as the short story collections. The Goldin Boys, Fabulous Small Jews, and Frozen in Time, among other books, and was formerly editor of the American Scholar. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, mostra altro The Atlantic, and other magazines. In 2003 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush along with John Updike, Hal Holbrook, and Robert Ballard. A longtime teacher of English at Northwestern University, he lives in Evanston, Illinois. mostra meno
Opere di Joseph Epstein
The Seven Deadly Sins Set: Consisting of Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Anger, and Pride (2006) 12 copie
My Brother Eli 1 copia
Confessions of a Low Roller 1 copia
Opere correlate
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Collaboratore — 452 copie
The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them (2002) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 97 copie
Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts (2007) — Collaboratore — 48 copie
Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) — Collaboratore — 34 copie
Snobs: The Classic Guidebook to Your Friends, Your Enemies, Your Colleagues, and Yourself (1950) — Introduzione — 17 copie
The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
The Calling of Education: "The Academic Ethic" and Other Essays on Higher Education (1997) — Prefazione — 13 copie
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books (2012) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Political Passages: Journeys of Change Through Two Decades 1968-1988 (1988) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? (Rights and Responsibilities: Communitarian Responses) (2006) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Dissent, Winter 1972: Special Issue: The World of the Blue Collar Worker — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Aristides (pen name)
EPSTEIN, Joseph - Data di nascita
- 1937-01-09
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Chicago (AB|1959)
- Attività lavorative
- professor
editor
essayist
short story writer - Relazioni
- Gross, John (friend)
Shils, Edward (friend)
Zabel, Morton Dauwel (teacher) - Organizzazioni
- Northwestern University
The American Scholar
The Weekly Standard
Commentary - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Humanities Medal (2003)
Harold Washington Medal for Literature
Harold U. Ribaloff Prize for Fiction
Utenti
Recensioni
Essays in Biography di Joseph Epstein
JE is a fine essayist, as you probably know; this is a collection of his biographical essays. Those about the intellectuals and authors of the 50s and 60s whom he knew are especially interesting and entertaining.
Many of the "essays" are book reviews reprinted as essays, and mostly they work well enough in that capacity. I would say that an essayist collects his magazine work into a single volume at his own peril: essays originally read months and years apart look very different when read straight through. For example, certain clever observations (Havard was difficult to get into, easy to get out of, whereas University of Chicago was easy to get into but difficult to get out of) and favorite expressions (eminence grise) lose their freshness after the second and third encounters.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 48
- Opere correlate
- 61
- Utenti
- 2,926
- Popolarità
- #8,755
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 48
- ISBN
- 105
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 1
