Bibliograph

Portrait inside my head /essays by Phillip Lopate

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Portrait inside my head /essays by Phillip Lopate

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Portrait inside my head /essays by Phillip Lopate

Oclc number

800031277

Table Of Contents

In defense of the miscellaneous essay collection -- Family romance. Tea at the Plaza ; The camera shop ; The Countess's tutor ; My brother the radio host ; Wife or sister ; Limits of empathy ; Lake of suffering -- Consolations of daily life. Memoirs of a wishy-washy Left-liberal ; Why I remain a baseball fan ; Novels & films ; On changing one's mind about a movie ; Laws of attraction ; Duration, or, Going long ; Warren Sonbert -- City spaces. Brooklyn the unknowable ; Robert Moses rethought ; City Hall and its park ; Walking the high line ; Getting the South wrong -- Literary matters. "Howl" and me ; The poetry years ; The stubborn art of Charles Reznikoff ; the improbable moralist ; James Agee ; On not reading Thomas Bernhard ; Worldliness and regret -- The life of the mind

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