TY  - BOOK
AU  - Epstein,Joseph
TI  - Gallimaufry: a collection of essays, reviews, bits 
SN  - 9781604191288
AV  - PS3555.P78A6  2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Edinburg, VA : 
PB  - Axios Press, 
KW  - Epstein, Joseph, 
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American essays
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes index; Part One: Essays -- The Bookish Life (2018) -- Body without Soul (2020) -- Chicago, Then and Now (2018) -- Jewish Jokes (2018) -- Short Attention Span (2017) -- Intellectual Marines in Little Magazines (2008) -- The American Language (2018) -- University of Chicago Days (2017) -- Frittering Prizes (1997) -- The Tzaddick of the Intellectuals (2017) -- The Menace of Political Correctness (2019) -- Hail, Mommsen (2018) -- Big Julie (2019) -- Our Gladiators (2018) -- Diamonds are Forever (2016) -- What's the Story? (2017) -- University Presidents (2019) -- Immaturity on Campus (2020) -- Heinrich Heine (2018) -- Joseph Roth (2018) -- Stefan Zweig (2019) -- Vasily Grossman (2011) -- Evelyn Waugh (2017) -- P. G. Wodehouse (2018) -- Tom Wolfe (2018) -- Susan Sontag, Savant-Idiot (2019) -- Lionel Trilling (2019) -- Proust's Duchesses (2018) -- Denis Diderot (2019) -- Isaiah Berlin (2016) -- Johnson-Boswell (2019) -- Stop Your Blubbering (2019) -- George Gershwin (2009) -- Nelson Algren (2019) -- Essayism (2018) -- Alcibaides (2019) -- Big Bill Tilden (2016) -- The Semicolon (2019) -- The Meritocracy (2019) -- Part Two: Bits and Pieces -- Close Shaves (2018) -- Location, Location, Location (2018) -- Milt Rosenberg (2018) -- Only a Hobby (2018) -- Hello, Dolly (2018) -- Dirty Words (2018) -- See Me Out (2018) -- Shabby Chic (2017) -- Thoughts and Prayers (2018) -- Table It (2018) -- Don't Hide Your Eyes, Weaponize (2019) -- Does Not Hug (2017) -- In Bad Taste or Not, I'll Keep My Comic Sans (2019) -- Yidiosyncrasies (2018) -- Sinfood (2017) -- A Nobel Prize for Marriage (2018) -- Part Three: Edward Redux -- Edward Remembered (2019)
N2  - "Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits contains 58 essays on a wide variety of subjects, each a pure pleasure to read"--
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