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Open Secrets.('Two Marriages' and 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog' )(Brief article)(Book review)
Byline: MEGAN CONWAY editor: Valerie Steiker
Two new books plumb the astonishing ways private lives and guarded secrets can come tumbling--for better or worse--into the open. A pair of novellas marks Phillip Lopate's nimble return to fiction with Two Marriages (Other Press), a wry look at conjugal woes. In the first, a naive academic struggles to understand why his beautiful Filipino wife, who happens to need a green card, spends so much time with a mysterious cousin from Manila. The second marriage finds a Brooklyn couple with delusions of bohemia--"His thick, healthy black hair, streaked with gray hanks, was longer than most men's his age, and it implied his ...
- Wit and wisdom: from Amy Tan and Phillip Lopate, essays with the charm and...
- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine Medwick, Cathleen November 1, 2003 700+ words
HOW DO YOU GET TO KNOW A WRITER, especially one as curmudgeonly as Phillip Lopate, grand master of the personal essay, or as slyly self-revealing as novelist Amy Tan? In the absence of a formal memoir, you...
- PERSONAL BESTS.(favorite films)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
- Magazine article from: Film Comment January 1, 2001 700+ words
...The Way of the Samurai The House of Mirth Jesus' Son O Brother, Where Art Thou? Ratcatcher Traffic The Way of the Gun Phillip Lopate 1. The House of Mirth 2. Platform 3. Humanite 4. In the Mood for Love 5. Gohatto/Taboo 6. Yi Yi 7. Voyages 8...
- Criterion Collection.(Coming Up)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Video Store January 25, 2004 700+ words
...versions, with restored image and sound; scholar Peter Cowie's comparison of both versions; exclusive new video interviews with stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson; a video interview with Bergman; and an essay by author Phillip Lopate.
- Portrait of My Body.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Antioch Review Kennedy, John June 22, 1997 700+ words
Portrait of My Body by Phillip Lopate. Anchor Books, 325 pp., $22.95. This collection of personal essays, the last in a trilogy that includes Bachelorhood and...
- Writers on writers.(DEALS)(Princeton University Press)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly Thornton, Matthew April 27, 2009 700+ words
...portrait of W.H. Auden by Alexander McCall Smith; Robin Straus sold world rights. The inaugural title in the series, Phillip Lopate's Notes on Sontag, is due out this May; no pub date for McCall Smith or the other book signed up so far, which is C...
- N.Y. fest on regal roll.(New York Film Festival)(The Queen)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Mohr, Ian July 19, 2006 700+ words
...screened there in 1993. Picks for the 44th annual New York Film Festival are being made by selection committee chair Richard Pena, along with Kent Jones, Phillip Lopate, John Powers and Lisa Schwarzbaum. Fest runs Sept. 29-Oct. 15.
- Media Guy's Pop Pick: Dirty Words; Our columnist's current media...
- Magazine article from: Advertising Age July 28, 2008 700+ words
...s genius about this book, edited by Ellen Sussman, is that it features some 100 writers (including Jonathan Ames, Phillip Lopate and Patricia Marx), so the definitions (from cyber sex to... way, way beyond) are often deeply, charmingly (and...
- The Genius of Edison places his inventions in the spotlight. (Learning Co...
- Magazine article from: Computer Shopper Elko, Lance March 1, 1997 700+ words
...investigation. The first, Tom's Technology, offers a brief article about how and why Edison developed the invention, along...life and career; a database of 253 terms, each linked to a brief article; and a cleverly designed quiz that tests users on program...
