Year and a Day, A: An Experiment in Essays by Phillip Lopate; 2023. Softcover. (New York Review Books) (CO)
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Publisher Collection: New York Review Books
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Binding: Softcover
Year Published: 2023
Number of Pages: 216
Essays or Memoir: Essays
In 2016, Philip Lopate, who has been writing essays and thinking about the essay for decades, now turned his attention to one of the essay's offshoots, the blog, a form by that time already thick, as he knew, with virtual dust. Lopate committed to writing a weekly blog about, really, whatever over the course of a year, a quicker pace of delivery than he'd ever undertaken and one that carried the risk of all too regularly falling short. What emerged was A Year and a Day, a collection of forty-seven essays best characterized as a single essay a year in the making, a virtuosic (if never showy) demonstration of the essay's range and reach, meandering, looping back, pressing reset, forging on. Lopate's topics along the way include family, James Baldwin, a trip to China, Agnes Martin, Abbas Kiarostami, the resistible rise of Donald Trump, death, desire, and the tribulations, small and large, of daily life. What results is at once a self-portrait, a picture of the times, and a splendid new elaboration of what the essay can be.
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Year and a Day, A: An Experiment in Essays by Phillip Lopate; 2023. Softcover. (New York Review Books) (CO)
