A Literary Education and Other Essays

Synopsis

A Collection Of 38 Essays On A Variety Of Topics, Which Are Not United By The Biographical Or Any Other Theme But Instead [cover] The Range Of [epstein's] Interests And Preoccupations As An Essayist Over A Writing Career That Spans More Than Fifty Years: Education, Language, The Arts, Magazines, Intellectuals, The Culture--dust Jacket Flap. Part One: A Literary Education. A Literary Education: On Being Well-versed In Literature (2008) -- Part Two: Memoir. Coming Of Age In Chicago (1969) ; Memoirs Of A Fraternity Man (1971) ; My 1950s (1993) ; A Virtucrat Remembers (1988) ; A Toddlin' Town (2009) ; Old Age And Other Laughs (2012) -- Part Three: The Culture. The Kindergarchy: Every Child A Dauphin (2008) ; Prozac, With Knife (2000) ; You May Be Beautiful, But You Gonna Die Some Day (2011) ; Whose Country 'tis Of Thee? (2011) ; Stand-up Guys (2003) ; You Could Die Laughing: Are Jewish Jokes A Humorous Subject? ; Duh, Bor-ing (2011) ; Nostalgie De Le Boeuf (2010) ; The Symphony Of A Lifetime (2010) -- Part Four: The Arts. What To Do About The Arts (1995) ; Who Killed Poetry? (1988) ; Culture And Capitalism (1993) ; Educated By Novels (1989) -- Part Five: Education. A Case Of Academic Freedom (1986) ; The Academic Zoo: Theory, In Practice (1991) ; Lower Education (2011) ; English As It's Taught (2011) ; The Death Of The Liberal Arts (2012) -- Part Six: Language. My Fair Language (2012) ; Heavy Sentences (2011) ; The Personal Essay: A Form Of Discovery (2012) -- Part Seven: Magazines. New Leader Days: Can You Have A Political Magazine Without Politics? (2006) ; Commentary (2010) ; The New York Review Of Books (1993) ; The Tls (2001) ; There At The New Yorker (2011) -- Part Eight: Intellectuals. Leo Lerman (2007) ; Walter Cronkite (2012) ; Paul Goodman In Retrospect (1978) ; Saul Steinberg (2013) ; Hilton Kramer (2012). Joseph Epstein. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.