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Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein's new collection of essays is In A Cardboard Belt! (Houghton Mifflin)

article archive

The permanent transient | June 2009

Santayana in his letters.


Nothing succeeds like failure | November 2008

On Cyril Connolly and "promise."


The busybody: the Duc de Saint-Simon remembers | September 2008

On the memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, newly translated by Lucy Norton.


A literary education | June 2008

On being well-versed in literature.


"The literary life" at 25 | September 2007

On the state of "the literary life" a quarter-century after Joseph Epstein wrote on this subject for our inaugural issue.

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In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage

In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage

by Joseph Epstein

$26.00

 

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Joseph Epstein on the future of small magazines, from an evening with the Friends of The New Criterion

Posted on: 01/18/2008

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Roger Kimball, Joseph Epstein

(mp3) 26.30 Mb , 45.58 minutes


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