Margo Jefferson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, is the author of On Michael Jackson and Negroland. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and teaches at Columbia University. Leslie Jamison is the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering, The Empathy Exams, Make it Scream, Make it Burn, and a novel, The Gin Closet. Phillip Lopate’s The Glorious American Essay was published by Pantheon Books in November 2020. His film criticism appears regularly in The New York Times and other publications. Lopate is the editor of The Art of the Personal Essay and the Library of America’s Writing New York, as well as the series editor of The Art of the Essay. He has also written the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of a Summer. PHILLIP LOPATE is the author of the essay collections Against Joie de Vivre, Bachelorhood, and Portrait of My Body. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably adaptable form and a treat for anyone who loves fantastic writing. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America’s best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century–from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and Samantha Irby–selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate.The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction.
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