Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives
by Joseph Epstein
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Epstein writes about authors to whom he feels indebted, those he has revered and learned from. His range extends from Matthew Arnold to Tom Wolfe, from George Santayana to S.J. Perelman.Tags
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Joseph Epstein is the author of the best-selling Snobbery and Friendship, as well as the short story collections. The Goldin Boys, Fabulous Small Jews, and Frozen in Time, among other books, and was formerly editor of the American Scholar. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, and other magazines. In 2003 he was show more awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush along with John Updike, Hal Holbrook, and Robert Ballard. A longtime teacher of English at Northwestern University, he lives in Evanston, Illinois. show less
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- Matthew Arnold; H. L. Mencken; Anton Chekhov; Evelyn Waugh; Max Beerbohm; Philip Larkin (show all 20); Barbara Pym; Walter Lippmann; Henry James; W. Somerset Maugham; Jorge Luis Borges; E. M. Forster; Theodore Dreiser; Marguerite Yourcenar; E. B. White; George Santayana; V. S. Naipaul; Tom Wolfe; S. J. Perelman; John R. Tunis
- Epigraph
- To read means to borrow; to create out of one's reading is paying off one's debts.
—G. C. Lichtenberg - Dedication
- For Hilton Kramer, a youngest son, who for more than twenty-five years has been my ideal older brother.
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- 081 — Computer science, information & general works Anthologies and Quotations General collections in American English
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- Z1003 .E67 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources General bibliography Biography of bibliographers
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