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A blog about the New York literary life by Phillip Lopate, celebrated essayist, 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.

Previous posts

Tennis, Anyone?

Tennis, Anyone?

Obsession and regression

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 30, 2017
Memories of Jazz Nights

Memories of Jazz Nights

You needed stamina, but the payoff was great

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 23, 2017
Valentines Past

Valentines Past

If only I’d had the nerve …

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 16, 2017
On the Death of Friendship

On the Death of Friendship

Nothing lasts forever

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 02, 2017
On Keeping a Blog

On Keeping a Blog

A Farewell

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, May 26, 2017
A Visit to Harvard

A Visit to Harvard

And a surprise encounter with Dr. Johnson

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, May 19, 2017
Remembering Cynthia Macdonald

Remembering Cynthia Macdonald

Poet, teacher, opera singer, psychoanalyst, and friend

by Phillip Lopate | Thursday, May 11, 2017
Marrying a Widow

Marrying a Widow

Or, my spectral predecessor

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, May 05, 2017
Baldwin the Prophet vs. Baldwin the Writer

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

Listening to Dinah

The complexity of “Don’t Explain”

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, April 21, 2017
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The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”