{"product_id":"a-year-and-a-day-an-experiment-in-essays-paperback","title":"A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhillip Lopate\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling celebration of the power of the essay, this collection of 47 writings offers a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Montaigne as he reflects on the miscellany of daily life--movies and art, friends and family--over the course of a single year.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003ewhatever\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eA Year and a Day\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhillip Lopate\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the essay collections \u003ci\u003eAgainst Joie de Vivre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBachelorhood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeing with Children\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePortrait of My Body\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTotally, Tenderly, Tragically\u003c\/i\u003e; and of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Rug Merchant\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Summer\u003c\/i\u003e. He has edited the anthologies \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Personal Essay\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Glorious American Essay\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age of the American Essay\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Contemporary American Essay\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003ePortrait Inside My Head\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo Show and to Tell\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Mother's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764563378464,"sku":"9781681377780","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/be6e81a2fb71344b3267693bce995dfd.webp?v=1780252246","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-year-and-a-day-an-experiment-in-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}