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Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein is the author of Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

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The James cult | October 2012

On the work of Henry James, and his loyal following.


A serious man | May 2012

The friendship, work, and life of Hilton Kramer.


Heavy sentences | June 2011

On How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One, by Stanley Fish.


The long, unhappy life of Saul Bellow | December 2010

On the novelists flaws, foibles & fallings-out.


The permanent transient | June 2009

Santayana in his letters.

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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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