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Portrait Inside My Head
Essays
New York : Free Press, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First Free Press hardcover edition.
Description: 292 pages ; 24 cm
Presents a collection of essays on a life well lived, sharing provocative observations on topics ranging from the challenges of a Brooklyn childhood and the pleasures of baseball to movies and friendship.
Contents:
In defense of the miscellaneous essay collection -- The family romance. Tea at the Plaza ; The camera shop ; The Countess's tutor ; My brother the radio host ; Wife or sister? ; The limits of empathy ; The lake of suffering -- The consolations of daily life. Memoirs of a wishy-washy Left-liberal ; Why I remain a baseball fan ; Novels and films ; On changing one's mind about a movie ; Laws of attraction ; Duration, or, Going long ; Warren Sonbert -- City spaces. Brooklyn the unknowable ; Robert Moses rethought ; City Hall and its park ; Walking the high line ; Getting the South wrong -- Literary matters. "Howl" and me ; The poetry years ; The stubborn art of Charles Reznikoff ; the improbable moralist ; James Agee ; On not reading Thomas Bernhard ; Worldliness and regret -- The life of the mind.
ISBN:
9781451695861
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Essays Lop | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |