A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays

by Phillip Lopate

A compelling celebration of the power of the essay, this collection of 47 writings offers a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Montaigne as he reflects on the miscellany of daily life--movies and art, friends and family--over the course of a single year.

The essay is the most pluckily pedestrian and blithely transgressive of literary genres, the one that is most at large and in need, picking through the accumulated disjecta of daily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681377780
• ISBN13: 9781681377780
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.4"