It took me a long time to read these essays, not because they were difficult, but I think because they made me feel guilty. I might be too amateur of a writer to glean much from it, but I tried, and still got lost (and bored) in an unneeded amount of detail. As the book went on, I began to chafe at professor-to-student tone and the orientation toward the pale male canon. Among his many awards are grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Lopate’s final list is a lot like a terrific essay — quirky, unpredictable, and highly individual. Is he becoming his father?
P hillip Lopate ’64 — editor, essayist, novelist, poet and film critic — is professor of professional practice at the School of the Arts. His most recent works include a book of novellas, Two Marriages (Other Press, 2008), and Notes on Sontag (Princeton University Press, 2009).

As the book went on, I began to chafe at professor-to-student tone and the orientation toward the pale male canon. 75), the model for which led to similar programs in all 50 states.

He talks (in one or two sentences) about what this or that student of his wanted to write about and why he thought that person was wrong and then he moves on to his next idea or student.

He's curious, thoughtful, self-deprecating, and a bit stodgy in a good-humored, self-aware way. With Orwell, the reader always feels that he’s leveling with us. Collected lectures from a class does not a book make. Before holding the John Cranford Adams Chair at Hofstra University, Lopate taught at Fordham, the University of Houston, and New York University, and Bennington College. February 12th 2013

There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Instantly, he became immersed in Hazlitt’s forthright, conversational voice.

I'm always picking up writing how-to books to keep upping my craft, but this one is a must-miss.

I've been reading through it in between other books these last several weeks. Like, if you're cons. I picked this up at my Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago a little while back.

Gornick casts herself as an “odd woman” (her latest book is titled The Odd Woman and the City), who is lonely but stubborn and whose friends have become her surrogate family.

Hazlitt led Lopate to Charles Lamb, Hazlitt’s close friend and a distinguished essayist himself. He tells on what we can’t remember to write of in our truths and reality to take from some imagination, and how we do create a small amount of fiction in non-fiction in doing this.There is priceless advice in here on writing and he writes about great essayists. He veers off on self-absorbed tangents. His discovery of these past masters of the essay deepened his interest in the form and its roots, and he began teaching the personal essay in his literature courses at the University of Houston, where he was a faculty member from 1980 to 1988. [2], Lopate worked as a writer-in-the-schools for twelve years and his memoir Being With Children came out of his association with the artists-in-the-school organization Teachers & Writers Collaborative.

Does he love his father? He asks only that a writer be entertaining and honest. So to narrow the field, we added parameters: stick to modern-day essayists (twentieth and twenty-first century) writing in English, and choose distinct voices that in no way duplicate one another.

Remind me to tell the story I cannot make my life tell. As for sparkling prose, it’s easy to recognize but difficult to define.

As he discusses following your curiosities, listening to that stubborn contrarian voice in your head, and putting yourself into your work, Lopate crafts himself into an endlessly amusing and "round" narrator that I admire.

Lopate’s take: Didion, a native Californian, came to essay writing through journalism, and her meticulous reporting skills shine through everything she writes. He is the younger brother of radio host Leonard Lopate.

And “Notes” also showcases Baldwin’s trademark honesty and ability to turn himself into a character who comes alive on the page. Above all, Orwell is notable for his integrity, evident in his unwavering honesty about his own petty or ugly impulses (as in “Shooting an Elephant,” in which he admits to hating both the empire he serves as a police officer in Burma and the Burmese people, who make his life a living hell). Section II "Studies of Practitioners" feels unnecessary, I'm not sure why all of a sudden we receive personal essays about 3ish essayists, it's kinda random. Gail Hochman Start by marking “To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction” as Want to Read: Error rating book. The first third or so was useful in understanding the structure of personal essays, though. He has a tendency to keep citing the works of dead white men, which is probably the literary group that holds my least interest. The early essays were helpful and instructive for me as a creative nonfiction writer. This was a very informative read on writing mostly essays and non-fiction.

“There are the essayists like Charles Lamb, who are always dilating over something daily and minor,” he says, “and then there are those like George Orwell and James Baldwin, who are grappling with the major themes of the day.” Like the novel, the essay can engage with any topic imaginable. I wish. He takes notice, he reports, he has a heart. Lopate writes with a combination of rigor and humor, in what I can only imagine is his regular voice.

They are so well written and engaging and even encouraging to the writer that I felt bad ignoring his comments and advice by not writing and so stayed away. Emma Straub was all set to spend May on tour promoting her new novel, All Adults Here.

Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York. Vivian Gornick's 'The Situation and the Story' was much more readable and welcoming. I found this book to be rather useless, although it is written by an authority in literary nonfiction.

A volume of his selected movie criticism, Totally Tenderly Tragically, was published by Doubleday-Anchor in 1998. A work of impressive scholarship combined with talented narration, South Street is enthusiastically recommended.
A blog about the New York literary life by Phillip Lopate, celebrated essayist, director of Columbia University’s nonfiction program, editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, and author of Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, and To Show and to Tell, among other books.

It’s territory she’s perfected and owns.

Contact Phillip Lopate at plopate@aol.com. Most of the book deals with writing personal narrative, and includes essays on turning yourself into a character, how to end an essay, and contrariety (from the author of Against Joie de Vivre this seems natural) among others.

By the time he got around to trashing James Baldwin as somewhat juvenile, I was pretty much done. Lopate’s take: Raised by Mexican immigrant parents in Sacramento, California, Rodriguez ’85GS, ’91SOA documented his gradual separation from their world in his celebrated 1982 book Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. The photographs, gathered in South Street, are stunning—intimate, dramatic, poignant. Outstanding. So in some ways, this is like the sparks notes for the personal essay tradition, but it's also lovely and inspiring. Search more than 3,000 biographies of contemporary and classic poets.

He becomes professorial and didactic.

We’d love your help. Other than that, the entire concept of this book is mislabeled, as instead of truly focusing on non-fiction (one would assume books or other long-form), it analyses the essay (short-form).

I am a relatively new writer (although not a relatively new person) with little formal training, and it wasn't until I read To Show and To Tell that I identified myself as a writer of literary non-fiction. I might be too amateur of a writer to glean much from it, but I tried, and still got lost (and bored) in an unneeded amount of detail. Amidst the guffaws of a thousand strangers I become unnaturally grave. Teenagers will crash into lampposts on their way home from proms, and there is nothing to be done about it.

Lopate offers a strong defense of the literary nature and the value of essay writing and the memoir. I wish it were otherwise, but I understand he's a product of his generation and his education, as are we all. (and recommends six great essayists he really thinks you should read), One day in the 1980s, the writer Phillip Lopate ’64CC stood before the bookcase of a vacation home he had rented for the summer, looking for something to read.

He ends the book with five essays on practioners and these have given me a listing of essays by Hazlitt, Lamb, Baldwin, and Hoagland to read. To think of ‘living’ there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not ‘live’ at Xanadu.”.


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