Portrait Inside My Head: Essays

Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays

By turns humorous, learned, celebratory, and elegiac, Lopate displays a keen intelligence and a flair for language that turn bits of common, everyday life into resonant narrative. This collection maintains a conversational charm while taking the contempor

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism - this unique, indispensable anthology brings together fifty unforgettable works from all genres of creative nonfiction. Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative w

American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now

The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

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

Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan

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 essay

Writing New York: A Literary Anthology

Presents a literary portrait of the city of New York through the eyes of more than a hundred writers, from Washington Irving to Oscar Hijuelos.

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate—celebrated essayist, the director of Columbia University’s nonfiction program, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated an

Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

From the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to New York City.The charming first anthology Goodbye to All That inspired by

Book of Days: Personal Essays

The sexual politics of a faculty wives dinner. The psychological gamesmanship of an inappropriate therapist. The emotional minefield of an extended family wedding . . .  Whatever the subject, Emily Fox Gordon’s disarmingly personal essays are an art fo