PORTRAIT INSIDE MY HEAD: ESSAYS
Book ID/图书代码： 02330013B62513
English Summary/英文概要： In this stunning new collection of personal essays, distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and brings us on an invigorating and thoughtful journey through memory, culture, parenthood, the trials of marriage both young and old, and an extraordinary look at New York’s storied past and present.
Opening with his family life, Lopate invites us first into his rough-and-tumble childhood on the streets of Brooklyn, learning the all-important art of cowardice. From there, he takes us to the ball game to discuss the trouble with ex–baseball fans; to high tea at the Plaza; to the theater to dissect Virginia Woolf ’s opinion that film should keep its hands off literature; and to visit his brother, radio personality Leonard Lopate, offering a rare glimpse into the unique sibling rivalry between two men at the top of their fields.
Throughout this rich, ambitious, deliciously readable collection, Lopate’s easy, conversational style pushes his piercing insights to new depths, celebrating the life of the mind—its triumphs and limitations—and illuminating memories and feelings both distant and immediate. The result is a charming and spirited new book from the undisputed master of the form.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这部激动人心的个人随笔新选集中，著名作家菲利普•洛帕特编织出一幅色彩绚烂的生活美景，透过记忆、文化、亲子关系，不分老少的婚姻试验，和作者以其独特的角度所诠释的纽约富有传奇色彩的往昔和现在故事，带领我们踏上了一段令人兴奋无比且富有深度的奇幻之旅。
借鉴他的家庭生活，洛帕特邀请我们首次进入他在布鲁克林街道的混乱童年，了解到怯懦所具备的重要艺术。从那里，他带领我们去看球赛，与前棒球迷们一同探讨问题; 在市场喝下午茶; 去剧院以（美国女作家）弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫的观点去解析电影不应与文学产生纠葛；和他一同去拜访他的兄弟，广播名人伦纳德•洛帕特，让读者得以能一窥，同一领域拔尖的兄弟二人间相互间的暗自较劲。
通过这部内容丰富的，宏大的，可读性极强的作品中，洛帕特的这部轻松的，以闲话家常的风格为载体的随笔，展现了他对美好的精神生活独具深度的见解，这是一部极富成功的和具有局限性的作品，富有知性的回忆和感觉，给人以一种疏离而又亲近感。所展现出的便是源自这位无可争议的大师所呈现的这部迷人的，极具灵感的全新作品。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：“Immensely readable essays. . . As riveting as short stories, with arresting openings, sculptured scenes worthy of fiction, introspective passages fingering his own feelings, and haunting conclusions that resonate. . . .What holds it together is an engaging voice, the projection of a curious, appealingly modest, sometimes self-mocking character behind that voice, and the “the fluent play of a single consciousness.” He’s gifted at staging his inner conflicts, radiating intimacy without descending into the confessional. . . . [Lopate] remains “a storyteller at heart” who can liven up any subject with nimble anecdotes from his life. . . . Delightful.” (The New York Times Book Review)
"An engaging collection of personal essays. . . . [Lopate] draws you in, playcing you in his writing space, and you feel his impatience to get to the page and draw you into his mind and through his world." (San Francisco Book Review (4 stars))
"A connoisseur of the personal essay. . . [Lopate’s] style and mileu are reminiscent of novels by Henry Roth and early Saul Bellow." (Christian Science Monitor)
"Phillip Lopate is America’s Montaigne, bringing the same sense of moderation, warmth, and curiousity to the personal essay." (Baltimore City Paper)
“Hilarious and tender… Meandering merrily along in the footsteps of the great classical essayists Montaigne and William Hazlitt, acclaimed cultural critic Lopate traipses breezily through family life and literary, cultural, social, and political matters…with his typical elegance and peripatetic curiosity.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
"Esteemed essayist and poet Lopate offers ’a motley collection of essays, personal and critical’ . . . Readers are well-rewarded for his obsession." (Kirkus)
“Lopate does the essay proud. He is elegant in style and a real slugger when it comes to content….Lopate is an ardent, shrewd urban chronicler, piquantly incisive in analyzing film and literature and unnervingly candid and combative in addressing intimate relationships, sexual performance, and his loving rivalry with his brother, Lenny, the well-known New York radio host…[An] ensnaring book.” (Booklist)
“Phillip Lopate is one of the greatest essayists of our time, and Portrait Inside My Head proves it again. His writing is provocative, intimate, intellectually curious, clear-eyed, and funny as hell. He’s a fearless, exquisitely aware chronicler of thought and feeling. Being Phillip Lopate, he’d probably also be skeptical about so much praise, but in this case he’d be totally (tenderly, tragically) wrong.” (Sam Lipsyte author of The Ask and The Fun Parts) more info...
About the Author/作者介绍： 菲利普•洛帕特1943年生于纽约的布鲁克林，1964年在哥伦比亚大学获得学士学位，1979年在研究生学院荣获博士头衔。他是三部散文集《单身岁月》，《对生活乐趣》和《我身体中的影像》，和两部小说《夏日自白》和《地毯商人》；两部中篇小说《两段婚姻》；两部诗集《不要一直睁着眼睛》和《日常事务》；和一部关于他自身教育经历的回忆录《和孩子们》的作者。
他还编撰了许多文集《个人随笔杂文的艺术》；《纽约现实生活体验的日记》，《美国电影评论》；以及系列年度最佳散文选集，《安佳出版社杂文年鉴》，2003年基础书局出版的《个人精选作品集》。他最近发表的作品，诗集《一天结束之时》，和由普林斯顿大学出版社发行一部分新集《桑塔格笔记》。
他被授予了得古德海根奖学金，纽约公共图书馆中心为学者和作家协会所设立的一种奖学金，两个全国艺术基金会的政府奖助，和两个纽约艺术基金会奖助。他的《和孩子们》荣获克里斯托弗奖，《单生生活》荣获得克萨斯学院年度最佳非小说类信件奖，《我身体中的影像》入围年奖最佳的散文作家奖。他的文集，《纪录纽约》，受到了纽约学会图书馆的褒奖和市政艺术协会的丹吉尔奖优秀奖。
在身作为一位作家在学校与孩子们打交道十二年以后，他在福特汉姆，库珀联合学院，休斯顿大学，赫福斯特拉大学，纽约大学和贝林顿学院教创意和文学。 他是哥伦比亚大学非小说类研究生项目的主任，在那里他也教授文学。
Phillip Lopate is the author of more than a dozen books, including three personal essay collections, Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body, and Waterfront. He directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
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