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Index
Cover
Introduction: In Defense of the Miscellaneous Essay Collection
Part I: The Family Romance
Tea at the Plaza
The Camera Shop
The Countess’s Tutor
My Brother the Radio Host
Wife or Sister? Abraham and Sarah in Egypt and Gerar
The Limits of Empathy
The Lake of Suffering
Part II: The Consolations of Daily Life
Memoirs of a Wishy-Washy Left-Liberal
Why I Remain a Baseball Fan
Novels and Films: A Comedy of Remarriage
On Changing One’s Mind About a Movie
Laws of Attraction
Duration, or, Going Long
Warren Sonbert: Friend and Filmmaker
Part III: City Spaces
Brooklyn the Unknowable
Robert Moses Rethought
City Hall and Its Park
Walking the High Line
Getting the South Wrong
Part IV: Literary Matters
“Howl” and Me
The Poetry Years
The Stubborn Art of Charles Reznikoff: The Style of “No Style”
The Improbable Moralist
James Agee: Nobility Overload
On Not Reading Thomas Bernhard
Worldliness and Regret: The Charterhouse of Parma
Coda: The Life of the Mind
Acknowledgments
About Phillip Lopate
Copyright
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