The Anchor essay annual
Subtitle: the best of 1998
By: edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
Contributors: Lopate, Phillip, 1943-
Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: American essays.; English essays.
Table of contents: title: Introduction/Phillip Lopate; title: The princess and the pea/Vivian Gornick; title: The undertaking/Thomas Lynch; title: The old morgue/Francine Prose; title: Boutique multiculturalism, or why liberals are incapable of thinking about hate speech/Stanley Fish; title: Sister turtle/Mary Oliver; title: Identity hour, or what photos would you take of the endless city/Carlos Monsivais; title: My slight stoop: a remembrance/Bert O. States; title: Grow up, why dontcha?/Joseph Epstein; title: Nearing 90/William Maxwell; title: Faculty wife/Emily Fox Gordon; title: On reading/Guy Davenport; title: Bartleby, or the formula/Gilles Deleuze; title: My God/Lucy Grealy; title: Further father: remembering John Waterman/David Lazar; title: Rediscovery: Ghosts at the door/J.B. Jackson; title: Lingua franca/Luc Sante; title: The frailty of human friendship/Gerald Early; title: Once ain't for always/Murray Kempton; title: The capital of memory/Andrè Aciman; title: Sticks and stones: the Irish identity/Robert McLiam Wilson; title: In Montaigne's tower/Hilary Masters; title: Così fan tutte at the limits/Edward W. Said; title: Wild things/Edward Hoagland; title: Certainly the end of something or the other, one would sort of have to think/David Foster Wallace; title: Rediscovery: Worrying about women/Donald Barthelme; title: Chicks and chuckles/Margaret Talbot; title: Lolita, my mother-in-law, the Marquis se Sade, and Larry Flynt/Norman Podhoretz; title: Satisfaction/Sam Pickering; title: This is what you need for a happy life/Jane Shapiro.