Wind Sprints
Shorter Essays
Published on 1. April 2016
500 pages
978-1-60419-101-1 (ISBN)
Description
Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down.
Joseph Epstein's Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays is the third volume of essays from Axios Press following the much acclaimed Essays in Biography, 2012 and A Literary Education and Other Essays, 2014. It contains 142 short essays, literary sprints rather than marathons. Subjects range from domestic life to current social trends to an appraisal of "contemporary nuttiness."
After reading Epstein, we see life with a fresh eye. We also see ourselves a little more clearly. This is what Plutarch intended: life teaching by example, but with a wry smile and such a sure hand that we hardly notice the instruction. It is just pure pleasure.
Joseph Epstein's Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays is the third volume of essays from Axios Press following the much acclaimed Essays in Biography, 2012 and A Literary Education and Other Essays, 2014. It contains 142 short essays, literary sprints rather than marathons. Subjects range from domestic life to current social trends to an appraisal of "contemporary nuttiness."
After reading Epstein, we see life with a fresh eye. We also see ourselves a little more clearly. This is what Plutarch intended: life teaching by example, but with a wry smile and such a sure hand that we hardly notice the instruction. It is just pure pleasure.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
2,00 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-60419-101-1 (9781604191011)
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A long-time resident of Chicago, Joseph Epstein has taught English and writing at Northwestern for many years. He is the author of 26 books, many of them collections of essays, and has also written for numerous magazines including the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Weekly Standard, and Commentary.
Author's previous books:
A Literary Education and Other Essays, 978-1-60419-078-6; Essays in Biography, 978-1-60419-068-7; Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit, 978-0618721948; The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories, 978-0618721955; Fabulous Small Jews, 978-0618446582; Snobbery: The American Version, 978-0395944172
Author's previous books:
A Literary Education and Other Essays, 978-1-60419-078-6; Essays in Biography, 978-1-60419-068-7; Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit, 978-0618721948; The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories, 978-0618721955; Fabulous Small Jews, 978-0618446582; Snobbery: The American Version, 978-0395944172
Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- The Romanian Air-Force Diet
- Take A Flying Focus
- Withholding the Facts of Life
- It Rings-You Jump
- My Detested Fellow Pilgrims
- Numbers on the Brain
- A Jones for Generalizations
- Out for a Read
- Please Sam, Don't Play It Again
- Overbooked
- Bio-Degradable
- Neologism, the Name of My Desire
- A New Nobel
- Gotcha
- Literary Tippling
- Great Talk
- Stop and Smell the Prose
- Can't Take That Away from Me
- A Sad Case of Mono
- Political Shopping
- The High Miles Club
- Rolodeath
- Confessions of a Craven Materialist
- Hats Off
- A Taxonomy of Bores
- Send in the Clowns
- No Acknowledgment Needed
- Dear Editor
- Don't Tutoyer Me, Pal
- Don't Ask, Multitask
- HMS Punafor
- Jervis
- Foot Fop
- You Got Attitude?
- The Game of the Name
- Upsizing
- Singing (Sort of) in the Rain
- The Eppy and Other Jackets
- The Enlivening Sins
- Mr. Epstein Regrets
- The Worried Well
- The Language Snob, Reinvented
- Looking for King Kong
- A Walker Outside the City
- Penman
- Popcorn Palaces
- Situation Comedy
- All the News Unfit to Read
- Sorry, Charlie
- Book Swining
- Khaki-Pantsman
- A Cheap Night Out
- An Offer I Could Refuse
- Back on the Bus
- The Food of My People
- No Opinion
- The Attack on the Hot Dog
- Shine
- Marginalized
- Paid Subscriber
- Quote-idian
- Let Old Acquaintance Be Forgot
- It's Only a Movie
- Jacques Barzun: An Appreciation
- Fighting Poverty
- Mel Lasky
- "Won't You Join Me?"
- They Said I Was Low-Tech . . .
- Letter from Bedlam
- Tailor-Made
- Sublime Competence
- Do Go Changin'
- The Postman Won't Even Ring Once
- A Secret Vice
- Orchidacious
- Switch & Rebate
- Early Riser
- Fred
- No Joke
- The Big Picture
- Trend Stopping
- Santayana's Chair
- The Artist Athlete
- Fat Moe, Hot Doug, and Big Herm
- Out of Business
- Plagiary, It's Crawling All Over Me
- The Perils of Prolificacy
- A Plague of Phones
- Perchance to Dream
- Spandexless
- $129 on the Dotted Line
- Cleaning Up My Act
- Don't Call Me Ishmael
- Memory Laine
- Excellent Choice
- Gimme Shelter
- Negative Pleasures
- It's Only a Hobby
- Vernon
- The Unnaturals
- Cool Chapeau, Man
- Prizeless
- Another Season, No Whoopee
- Funny Papers
- Fit To Be Tied
- Sound Off
- Joseph Epstein Has a Cold
- Home Mechanic
- A Happy Problem
- Adios, Gray Lady
- Full Slab
- Dancing with Wolves
- Bye, Bye, High Five
- Kindle at the Cleaners
- At Moral Rest in Old New York
- Katie in Kabul
- The Divine Miss H
- Bring It on, Fyodor Mikhailovich
- Down the AmaZone
- The Proustian Solution
- The Great Apartment Hunt
- Weepers Keepers
- Audio-Dismal Aids
- Go Google Yourself
- Pretensions à la Carte
- The Greatest Story Never Read
- Toting a Dumb Phone
- Nostalgia Organized
- A Condition in Need of a Label
- Hold the Gluten
- The Reluctant Bibliophile
- Making a Spectacles of Myself
- Portnoy's Children
- The Issue Issue
- How I Learned to Love the Draft
- Unsentimental Journey
- Everyone Has His Price
- Incommunicado
- That's a Nickel
- Funny, But I Do Look Jewish
- Cuppa Joe
- The Divine Miss H, Revisited
- Remembering Torelli
- Original Publication Information for Essays in this Book
- Index
