Phillip Lopate

The Art of the Personal Essay
An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Written by Phillip Lopate

Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1997
Price: $19.95

For more than four hundred years, the personal  essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant  of all literary forms. Distinguished from the  detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational  tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward  candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay  seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities,  fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals... Read more >

Waterfront
A Walk Around Manhattan
Written by Phillip Lopate

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.95

East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan’s waterfront are both celebrated and secret–hidden in plain sight. In his brilliant exploration of this defining yet neglected shoreline, personal essayist Philip Lopate also recovers a part of the city’s soul.
A native New... Read more >

Totally, Tenderly, Tragically

Written by Phillip Lopate

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 20, 1998
Price: $16.95

Phillip Lopate has been obsessed with movies from the start. As an undergraduate at Columbia, he organized the school's first film society. Later, he even tried his own hand at filmmaking. But it was not until his ascent as a major essayist that Lopate found his truest and most lasting contribution... Read more >

Portrait of My Body

Written by Phillip Lopate

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 15, 1997
Price: $19.00

Phillip Lopate's richest and most ambitious book  yet--the final volume of a trilogy that began with  Bachelorhood and Against  Joie de Vivre--Portrait of My  Body is a powerful memoir in the form of  interconnected personal essays. One of America's  foremost essayists, who helped focus attention on  the form in his acclaimed anthology The  Art of the Personal Essay, Lopate  demonstrates... Read more >

The Anchor Essay Annual
The Best of 1997
Written by Phillip Lopate

Format: Trade Paperback, 436 pages
On Sale: September 15, 1997
Price: $23.00

Anchor Books proudly launches an annual essay series.  Acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate has selected the most surprising, important, and exquisite pieces published during the last twelve months.  Bringing together materials from both periodicals and books, The Anchor Essay Annual 1997 also includes essays never before published, as well as translations from abroad.  The result... Read more >

The Art of the Essay, 1999

Written by Phillip Lopate

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 14, 1999
Price: $23.00

Now in its third year, this annual collection presents the most notable, influential, and surprising essays published in the last twelve months in either books or periodicals throughout the English-speaking world. Selected with consummate taste and a catholic openness to style and subject matter by famed essayist, critic, and editor, Phillip... Read more >

Confessions of Summer

Written by Phillip Lopate

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 7, 1995
Price: $19.00

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Waterfront
A Walk Around Manhattan
Written by Phillip Lopate

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $15.95

Fusing history, lore, politics, culture, and on-site adventures, esteemed essayist and author Phillip Lopate takes us on an exuberant, affectionate, and eye-opening excursion around Manhattan’s shoreline. Waterfront captures the ever-changing character of New York in the best way possible: on a series of exploratory walks conducted by one of the city’s... Read more >