Other books include Being With Children (Doubleday, 1975) now considered a classic of progressive education a collection of his movie criticism, Totally Tenderly Tragically (Doubleday-Anchor, 1998) an urbanist meditation, Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan (Crown, 2004), and Notes On Sontag (Princeton University Press, 2009). His poetry collections are The Eyes Don’t Always Want to Stay Open (Sun Press, 1972), The Daily Round (Sun Press, 1976) and At the End of the Day (Marsh Hawk Press, 2010.) His fiction includes two novels, Confessions of Summer (Doubleday, 1979) and The Rug Merchant (Viking, 1987), and a pair of novellas ( Two Marriages, Other Press, 2008). He has written four personal essay collections - Bachelorhood (Little, Brown, 1981), Against Joie de Vivre (Poseidon-Simon & Schuster, 1989), which Robert Atwan, editor of the Best American Essays series, noted as one of the ten best essays since 1950, claiming that Lopate “had found a creative way to insert the old familiar essay into the contemporary world," Portrait of My Body (Doubleday-Anchor, 1996) and Portrait Inside My Head (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2013). Lopate is also an accomplished poet and novelist, film and literary critic, writer about and lover of New York City, and beloved professor and mentor. He is the author of the seminal To Show and To Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (Free Press, 2013), and the editor of influential The Art of the Personal Essay (Anchor Books, 1994). Phillip Lopate is widely considered a master of the essay.
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