Phillip Lopate
Autor(a) de The Art of the Personal Essay
About the Author
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.
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Correct spelling of author's first name is Phillip, not Philip. .
Image credit: Phillip Lopate. UH Photographs Collection.
Séries
Obras por Phillip Lopate
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Editor — 93 exemplares
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Editor — 81 exemplares
Spicy Meatball 3 exemplares
Mostrar y decir: El arte de escribir ficción (Guías del escritor/Textos de referencia) (Spanish Edition) (2017) 1 exemplar
Segundo matrimonio 2008 1 exemplar
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contribuidor — 451 exemplares
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
New York 400: A Visual History of America's Greatest City with Images from The Museum of the City of New York (2009) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology) (1999) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity (1996) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 47 exemplares
Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult but Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood in a High-Tech Age (1998) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Telephone #9 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Lopate, Phillip
- Data de nascimento
- 1943-11-16
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Educação
- Columbia University (BA)
Union University (PhD) - Ocupações
- film critic
essayist
poet
teacher
professor - Organizações
- Hofstra University
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- 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 de desambiguação
- Correct spelling of author's first name is Phillip, not Philip.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 40
- Also by
- 22
- Membros
- 3,507
- Popularidade
- #7,247
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 51
- ISBN
- 79
- Línguas
- 2
- Marcado como favorito
- 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.… (mais)