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03192aam a2200421 i 4500 001 63158DBA7D3B11EE9BA621765EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231107010036 008 230204s2023 nyu e 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023004611 020 $a 1681377780 020 $a 9781681377780 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3562.O66 $b Z46 2023 082 00 $a 818/.5403 $2 23/eng/20230227 100 1 $a Lopate, Phillip, $d 1943- $e author. 245 12 $a A year and a day : $b an experiment in essays / $c Phillip Lopate. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b The New York Review of Books, $c [2023] 300 $a 205 pages ; $c 22 cm. 505 20 $t Selling my papers. $t We begin -- $t By way of an introduction -- $t A childhood comfort food -- $t Selling my papers. 520 $a "A compelling record of one year in the life of a writer, including observations about movies, art, music, friendship, travel, and family. The essay is the most pluckily pedestrian and blithely transgressive of literary genres, the one that is most at large and in need, picking through the accumulated disjecta of daily life and personal and social history to take what it needs and remake it as it sees fit. It is, at its lively best, quite indifferent to the claims of style, fashion, theory, and respectability, provoking and inspiring through the pleasure of surprise. 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 Kiarastomi, the resistable 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Lopate, Phillip, $d 1943- 600 10 $a Lopate, Phillip, $d 1943- $v Blogs. 650 0 $a American essays $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 21st century $v Biography. 600 17 $a Lopate, Phillip, $d 1943- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00040645. 650 7 $a American essays. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807040. 650 7 $a Authors, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821764. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896. 655 7 $a Blogs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01692825. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 2 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314030423.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20231107011119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=63158DBA7D3B11EE9BA621765EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search