Background
Epstein, Joseph was born on January 9, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Maurice and Belle (Abrams) Epstein.
(Epstein's lively mind explores such topics as the pleasur...)
Epstein's lively mind explores such topics as the pleasures of work, neighborhood, and keeping a journal; lecturing, language snobbery, and the comedy of gluttony; and the mixed delights of issuing and receiving praise, friendship, and growing into middle age.
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(Epstein writes about authors to whom he feels indebted, t...)
Epstein writes about authors to whom he feels indebted, those he has revered and learned from. His range extends from Matthew Arnold to Tom Wolfe, from George Santayana to S.J. Perelman.
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( “His way with the familiar essay―that flexible, forgivi...)
“His way with the familiar essay―that flexible, forgiving genre in which anything goes except charmlessness and anonymity―has much in common with that of Messrs, Beerbohm, Liebling, and Mencken. Each piece is exquisitely sustained, moving from point to point with the relaxed economy of a pro.” ―Wall Street Journal Paul Klee's words on his art, "I take a line out for a walk," describe precisely what the author of these essays does―he takes out such "lines" as gossip, gambling, height (or the lack of it), hats, smoking, fame or compulsive reading and "walks them" in his own discursive style.
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(Dust jacket notes: "Over the last twenty years Joseph Eps...)
Dust jacket notes: "Over the last twenty years Joseph Epstein has published more than eighty familiar essays. Taken together, these essays constitute a continuing autobiography. Although the tone in this collection, his fifth - which owes its title to T. S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - is still highly amused, these new essays also strike a chord that's slightly elegiac. Offering reflections on his increased maturity both as a writer and as a man, Epstein admits to feeling more and more on the periphery of contemporary life - 'Nicely Out of It,' and not at all minding this. 'Decline and Blumenthal' is his take on the endemic slippage of standards in all realms of life. In 'Here to Buy Mink,' he conveys his love and admiration for the remarkable woman who was his mother."
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Epstein, Joseph was born on January 9, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Maurice and Belle (Abrams) Epstein.
Bachelor of Arts Chicago, 1959. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Adelphi University, 1988.
Editor, American Scholar, Washington, 1975-1997. Visiting lecturer Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1974.
(Epstein's lively mind explores such topics as the pleasur...)
( “His way with the familiar essay―that flexible, forgivi...)
(Reading an essay by Joseph Epstein is much like watching ...)
(Dust jacket notes: "Over the last twenty years Joseph Eps...)
(Epstein writes about authors to whom he feels indebted, t...)
(The Middle of My Tether : Familiar Essays, Cl Oth)
(Essays on American Writing. In stock)
(Book by Epstein, Joseph)
With United States Army, 1958-1960. Member of Tavern, Wayfarers.
Married Barbara Maher, February 27, 1976. Children: Mark.