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.

The New York Film Festival

A report

By Phillip Lopate | Friday November 11, 2016

The Workmen

Keeping the faith

By Phillip Lopate | Friday November 4, 2016

The Roads Not Taken

I coulda been a contender—as a cantor

By Phillip Lopate | Friday October 28, 2016

What Our Politicians Can’t Bring Themselves to Say

(And why the personal essay might help)

By Phillip Lopate | Friday October 21, 2016

The Martyrdom Prayers

Enigmas and mysteries

By Phillip Lopate | Friday October 14, 2016

“Give Me a Place”

On Montaigne and Judaism

By Phillip Lopate | Friday October 7, 2016

On the Death of Friendship

Nothing lasts forever

By Phillip Lopate | Friday September 30, 2016

Holding On to the Banister

The art of being cautious

By Phillip Lopate | Friday September 23, 2016

September Song

And so a new year begins

By Phillip Lopate | Friday September 16, 2016

Tennis, Anyone?

Obsession and regression

By Phillip Lopate | Friday September 9, 2016

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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