Phillip Lopate
Autore di The Art of the Personal Essay
Sull'Autore
Phillip Lopate is the author of more than a dozen books, including three personal essay collections, Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body; and Waterfront. He directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Correct spelling of author's first name is Phillip, not Philip. .
Fonte dell'immagine: Phillip Lopate. UH Photographs Collection.
Serie
Opere di Phillip Lopate
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — A cura di — 93 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — A cura di — 83 copie
Opere correlate
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Collaboratore — 452 copie
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
New York 400: A Visual History of America's Greatest City with Images from The Museum of the City of New York (2009) — Collaboratore — 70 copie
Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology) (1999) — Collaboratore — 62 copie
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Collaboratore — 62 copie
Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity (1996) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 47 copie
Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult but Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood in a High-Tech Age (1998) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Telephone #9 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Lopate, Phillip
- Data di nascita
- 1943-11-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Columbia University (BA)
Union University (PhD) - Attività lavorative
- film critic
essayist
poet
teacher
professor - Organizzazioni
- Hofstra University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts grant
Guggenheim Fellowship - Nota di disambiguazione
- Correct spelling of author's first name is Phillip, not Philip.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 40
- Opere correlate
- 22
- Utenti
- 3,526
- Popolarità
- #7,204
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 51
- ISBN
- 79
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 2
The abandonment of shipping and commerce on the Hudson and East Rivers has been the major discontinuity for the Manhattan perimeter. The rethinking of how the littoral should be repurposed and redesigned is a work in progress. Lopate's hope is for greater access to the water's edge, for so long unavailable for so much of its length.
Along his walk, which is not without its interruptions, the writer (who is primarily an essayist, not an architect) provides much incidental background to that rich history of the island and its hustling maritime legacy. Among other subjects, he discusses teredo worms, the power brokers, especially Robert Moses, the Fulton Fish Market, the Washington and Brooklyn Bridges, Captain Kidd, and public housing (with some praise it should added).
If you're an NYC citizen, read it and you might get interested further in your great city. If not, you'll still be better informed about it.… (altro)