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Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays

Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays - Paperback

by Joseph Epstein
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joseph EpsteinPublish date:2024-04-16Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781668009727ISBN-10:1668009722UPC:9781668009727Book Category:Literary Collections, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:EssaysSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCCM79Y7V5
A collection of personal essays from America's most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.

America's greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a "bonfire of his own vanities," his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker. Above all, he writes about the literary life and the endless joys that reading and writing have brought to a self-confessed "lucky man."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781668009727ISBN-10:1668009722UPC:9781668009727Book Category:Literary Collections, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:EssaysSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCCM79Y7V5
Joseph Epstein is the author of thirty-one books, among them works on divorce, ambition, snobbery, friendship, envy, and gossip. He has published seventeen collections of essays and four books of short stories. He has been the editor of the American Scholar, the intellectual quarterly of Phi Beta Kappa, and for thirty years he taught in the English Department at Northwestern University. He has written for The New Yorker, Commentary, New Criterion, Times Literary Supplement, Claremont Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, and other magazines both in the United States and abroad. In 2003, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.


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