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Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate is the author of the essay collections Against Joie de Vivre , Bachelorhood , Being with Children , Portrait of My Body , and Totally, Tenderly, Tragically ; and of the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of a Summer . He has edited the anthologies The Art of the Personal Essay , The Glorious American Essay , The Golden Age of the American Essay , and The Contemporary American Essay . His most recent books are Portrait Inside My Head , To Show and to Tell , and A Mother's...See more