Title: Narcissus leaves the pool
First published: 1999
Description: Joseph Epstein's sixth collection of personal pieces rounds off more than two decades of his writing under the name Aristides for The American Scholar. Among the things that arise here are naps, Gershwin, name-dropping, long books, growing older, talent versus genius, Anglophilia, and surgery. These are essays about the head and the heart.
Subjects: Essays (single author)
LC classification: PS3555.P6527 N37 1999