Phillip Lopate’s Book Bag: The Essay Tradition

The great practitioner of the personal essay contemplates the form in not one but two new books—To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction and Portrait Inside My Head: Essays—and picks his five favorite collections.

Phillip Lopate

Published Feb. 5 2013 4:45AM EST 

Phillip Lopate

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