A year and a day : an experiment in essays
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2023].
ISBN
9781681377780, 1681377780
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Wellesley - Adult
814 Lopate
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814 Lopate
1 available
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Wellesley - Adult | 814 Lopate | On Shelf |
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Brookline - Adult | 814 Lopate 2023 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2023].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781681377780, 1681377780
Notes
Description
"A compelling record of one year in the life of a writer, including observations about movies, art, music, friendship, travel, and family. The essay is the most pluckily pedestrian and blithely transgressive of literary genres, the one that is most at large and in need, picking through the accumulated disjecta of daily life and personal and social history to take what it needs and remake it as it sees fit. It is, at its lively best, quite indifferent to the claims of style, fashion, theory, and respectability, provoking and inspiring through the pleasure of surprise. In 2016, Philip Lopate, who has been writing essays and thinking about the essay for decades now, turned his attention to one of the essay's offshoots, the blog, a form by that time already thick, as he knew, with virtual dust. Lopate committed to writing a weekly blog about, really, whatever over the course of a year, a quicker pace of delivery than he'd ever undertaken and one that carried the risk of all too regularly falling short. What emerged was A Year and a Day, a collection of forty-seven essays best characterized as a single essay a year in the making, a virtuosic (if never showy) demonstration of the essay's range and reach, meandering, looping back, pressing reset, forging on. Lopate's topics along the way include family, James Baldwin, a trip to China, Agnes Martin, Abbas Kiarastomi, the resistable rise of Donald Trump, death, desire, and the tribulations, small and large, of daily life. What results is at once a self-portrait, a picture of the times, and a splendid new elaboration of what the essay can be"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lopate, P. (2023). A year and a day: an experiment in essays . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lopate, Phillip, 1943-. 2023. A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lopate, Phillip, 1943-. A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays New York Review Books, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lopate, Phillip. A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays New York Review Books, 2023.
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