Joseph Epstein (1) (1937–)
Auteur de Snobbery: The American Version
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Joseph Epstein, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Joseph Epstein is the author of the best-selling Snobbery and Friendship, as well as the short story collections. The Goldin Boys, Fabulous Small Jews, and Frozen in Time, among other books, and was formerly editor of the American Scholar. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, afficher plus The Atlantic, and other magazines. In 2003 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush along with John Updike, Hal Holbrook, and Robert Ballard. A longtime teacher of English at Northwestern University, he lives in Evanston, Illinois. afficher moins
Œuvres de Joseph Epstein
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 142 exemplaires
The Seven Deadly Sins Set: Consisting of Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Anger, and Pride (2006) 12 exemplaires
The American Scholar - Winter 1990 1 exemplaire
My Brother Eli 1 exemplaire
The American Scholar (Summer 1987) 1 exemplaire
Confessions of a Low Roller 1 exemplaire
'Bloomin' Genius' in Hudson Review summer 2002 1 exemplaire
The American Scholar 1994-4 Autumn 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributeur — 452 exemplaires
Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture (1996) — Contributeur — 143 exemplaires
The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them (2002) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 97 exemplaires
The Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses, 2003 Edition (2003) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts (2007) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
Conversations With Saul Bellow (Literary Conversations Series) (1994) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
Snobs: The Classic Guidebook to Your Friends, Your Enemies, Your Colleagues, and Yourself (1950) — Introduction — 17 exemplaires
Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals (1997) — Directeur de publication; Introduction — 15 exemplaires
The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
The Calling of Education: "The Academic Ethic" and Other Essays on Higher Education (1997) — Avant-propos — 13 exemplaires
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books (2012) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Political Passages: Journeys of Change Through Two Decades 1968-1988 (1988) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? (Rights and Responsibilities: Communitarian Responses) (2006) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Dissent, Winter 1972: Special Issue: The World of the Blue Collar Worker — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Aristides (pen name)
EPSTEIN, Joseph - Date de naissance
- 1937-01-09
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Études
- University of Chicago (AB|1959)
- Professions
- professor
editor
essayist
short story writer - Relations
- Gross, John (friend)
Shils, Edward (friend)
Zabel, Morton Dauwel (teacher) - Organisations
- Northwestern University
The American Scholar
The Weekly Standard
Commentary - Prix et distinctions
- National Humanities Medal (2003)
Harold Washington Medal for Literature
Harold U. Ribaloff Prize for Fiction
Membres
Critiques
Essays in Biography par Joseph Epstein
JE is a fine essayist, as you probably know; this is a collection of his biographical essays. Those about the intellectuals and authors of the 50s and 60s whom he knew are especially interesting and entertaining.
Many of the "essays" are book reviews reprinted as essays, and mostly they work well enough in that capacity. I would say that an essayist collects his magazine work into a single volume at his own peril: essays originally read months and years apart look very different when read straight through. For example, certain clever observations (Havard was difficult to get into, easy to get out of, whereas University of Chicago was easy to get into but difficult to get out of) and favorite expressions (eminence grise) lose their freshness after the second and third encounters.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 48
- Aussi par
- 61
- Membres
- 2,924
- Popularité
- #8,760
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 48
- ISBN
- 105
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 1
