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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.

• On Keeping a Blog
• A Visit to Harvard
• Remembering Cynthia Macdonald
• Marrying a Widow
• Baldwin the Prophet vs. Baldwin the Writer
• Listening to Dinah
• Celebrity Profiles
• Report from Hong Kong
• Robert Silvers
• The Eros of Teaching
• A Quick Tour of India
• Indian Wedding
• Resisting Mr. T****
• Swimming in the Salmon Stream
• Valentines Past
• On Being Popular and Well-Liked
• Memories of Jazz Nights
• Sadness, Irony, and Equilibrium
• Liking La La Land and Jackie
• The Big Schlep
• The Complex Art of Second-Guessing
• Father-In-Law
• The Agnes Martin Retrospective
• Skyping Brazil
• The Paradox of Urban Density
• Reflections after the Election
• The New York Film Festival
• The Workmen
• The Roads Not Taken
• What Our Politicians Can’t Bring Themselves to Say
• The Martyrdom Prayers
• “Give Me a Place”
• On the Death of Friendship
• Holding On to the Banister
• September Song
• Tennis, Anyone?
• The Missing Friend
• Selling My Papers
• Confronting the Inevitable Subject
• Remembering Abbas Kiarostami
• On to Nanjing
• Still in Shanghai
• Letter from Shanghai
• On Women Artists
• The Dead of Summer
• English Women Novelists
• People With Knapsacks
• Elevated
• We Begin