Getting Personal: Selected EssaysBasic Books, 2008 M11 5 - 416 pages From the man who is practically synonymous with the form of the modern personal essay comes a delightful collection of prose, poems, and never-before-published pieces that span his career as an essayist, novelist, poet, film critic, father, son, and husband. Organized in six parts (Childhood; Youth; Early Marriage and Bachelorhood; Teaching and Work; Fiction; Politics, Religion, Movies, Books, Cities; The Style of Middle Age) Getting Personal tells two stories: the development of Lopate's career as a writer and the story of his life. |
Contents
Hanging Out Chekhov for Children Suicide of a Schoolteacher | 17 |
Samson and Delilah and the Kids | 25 |
Youth | 34 |
4 | 47 |
Washington Heights and Inwood | 85 |
My Drawer | 91 |
Never Live Above Your Landlord | 119 |
On Shaving a Beard | 130 |
Detachment and Passion | 288 |
The Story of a Marriage | 302 |
Confessions of a Shusher | 311 |
Reflections on Subletting | 316 |
The Style of Middle | 325 |
Portrait of My Body | 327 |
25 | 335 |
The Dead Father | 339 |
AgainstJoie de Vivre | 143 |
The Brunch | 157 |
Resistance to the Holocaust | 263 |
The Movies and Spiritual Life | 280 |
The Story of My Father | 358 |
5 | 386 |
First Love 169 189 220 263 280 288 302 311 316 327 335 339 358 | 397 |
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