Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate is director of Columbia University's nonfiction program, editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, and author of Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, and To Show and to Tell, among other books.

Celebrity Profiles

Why I gave them up

By Phillip Lopate | Friday April 14, 2017

Report from Hong Kong

30 films, two days, and the inevitable breaking out in song

By Phillip Lopate | Friday April 7, 2017

Robert Silvers

In memoriam

By Phillip Lopate | Friday March 31, 2017

The Eros of Teaching

Bonds formed and broken

By Phillip Lopate | Friday March 24, 2017

A Quick Tour of India

Taking it all in, and taking it all back

By Phillip Lopate | Friday March 17, 2017

Indian Wedding

Seinfeld had nothing on this

By Phillip Lopate | Friday March 10, 2017

Resisting Mr. T****

Or, the art of the boast

By Phillip Lopate | Friday March 3, 2017

Swimming in the Salmon Stream

The AWP convention

By Phillip Lopate | Friday February 24, 2017

Valentines Past

If only I’d had the nerve …

By Phillip Lopate | Friday February 17, 2017

On Being Popular and Well-Liked

The subject that makes me most nervous as a writer

By Phillip Lopate | Friday February 10, 2017

Tennis, Anyone?

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 30, 2017

Memories of Jazz Nights

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 23, 2017

Valentines Past

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 16, 2017

On the Death of Friendship

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 2, 2017

On Keeping a Blog

By Phillip Lopate | Friday May 26, 2017

A Visit to Harvard

By Phillip Lopate | Friday May 19, 2017

Remembering Cynthia Macdonald

By Phillip Lopate | Thursday May 11, 2017

Marrying a Widow

By Phillip Lopate | Friday May 5, 2017

Listening to Dinah

By Phillip Lopate | Friday April 21, 2017

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