Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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Philip Lopate is the editor of the contemporary American essay. He is the author also of, well, many, many books, but to show

and to tell the craft of literary nonfiction and four essay collections, Bachelorhood,

against Jada Viv, Portrait of My Body, and Portrait Inside

My Head. He is the editor of the anthologies, The Glorious American Essay, the Golden

Age of the American Essay, the Art of the Personal Essay, which by the way was one of my

school books and which I still have on my shelf today, and that was from like 20 or whatever

years ago, so that was awesome. Writing New York

and American movie critics. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public

Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Adowment for the Arts Grants,

and two New York Foundation for the Arts Grants. He is a professor of writing at Columbia

University's nonfiction MFA program and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Welcome, Philip. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books.

We're going to discuss your whole body of work, which is like astounding in its breadth and scope and everything.

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