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.

Tennis, Anyone?

Obsession and regression

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 30, 2017

Memories of Jazz Nights

You needed stamina, but the payoff was great

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 23, 2017

Valentines Past

If only I’d had the nerve …

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 16, 2017

On the Death of Friendship

Nothing lasts forever

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 2, 2017

On Keeping a Blog

A Farewell

By Phillip Lopate | Friday May 26, 2017

A Visit to Harvard

And a surprise encounter with Dr. Johnson

By Phillip Lopate | Friday May 19, 2017

Remembering Cynthia Macdonald

Poet, teacher, opera singer, psychoanalyst, and friend

By Phillip Lopate | Thursday May 11, 2017

Marrying a Widow

Or, my spectral predecessor

By Phillip Lopate | Friday May 5, 2017

Baldwin the Prophet vs. Baldwin the Writer

Can a film really capture the essence of both?

By Phillip Lopate | Friday April 28, 2017

Listening to Dinah

The complexity of “Don’t Explain”

By Phillip Lopate | Friday April 21, 2017

Memories of Jazz Nights

By Phillip Lopate | Friday February 3, 2017

Sadness, Irony, and Equilibrium

By Phillip Lopate | Friday January 27, 2017

Liking La La Land and Jackie

By Phillip Lopate | Friday January 20, 2017

The Big Schlep

By Phillip Lopate | Friday January 13, 2017

Father-In-Law

By Phillip Lopate | Friday December 23, 2016

The Agnes Martin Retrospective

By Phillip Lopate | Friday December 16, 2016

Skyping Brazil

By Phillip Lopate | Friday December 9, 2016

The Paradox of Urban Density

By Phillip Lopate | Friday December 2, 2016

Reflections after the Election

By Phillip Lopate | Friday November 18, 2016

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