Joseph Epstein (writer)

Joseph Epstein ( born January 9, 1937 in Chicago) is an American essayist, short story writer and editor. He was known primarily as a former editor of the intellectual journal The American Scholar of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and for his volume of essays Snobbery: The American Version.

Life and work

Epstein grew up in the neighborhood " Rogers Park " by Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago. Later he worked from 1974 to 2002 as a lecturer ( " lecturer" ) at Northwestern University. He is co-editor of The Weekly Standard and a longtime posted essays and short stories in U.S. newspapers The New Criterion and Commentary.

Epstein's life's work shows his fascination with insights into everyday situations and amusing trends. In some of his essays, he also deals with the assumptions and ideas of famous or forgotten historical writer. His short stories have often his city Chicago to hinge point, the inhabitants and events he observed since childhood. In 2003, the U.S. government honored him with the National Humanities Medal.

Works (selection)

Essay collections and monographs:

  • Divorced in America: Marriage in to Age of Possibility (1974 )
  • Ambition: The Secret Passion ( 1980)
  • Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing ( 1985)
  • Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives (1988 )
  • Pertinent Players: Essays on the Literary Life (1993 )
  • Life Sentences: Literary Essays (1997)
  • Snobbery: The American Version (2002)
  • Envy (2003), dt envy. The most evil mortal sin from the English by Matthias Wolf. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2010. 124 pp. ISBN 978-3-8031-2650-4
  • Friendship: An Exposé ( 2006)
  • Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy 's Guide (2006)
  • In a Cardboard Belt: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage (2007)
  • Fred Astaire (2008)

Short-story volumes:

  • The Goldin Boys: Stories ( 1991)
  • Fabulous Small Jews (2003)
  • The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories ( 2010)

Short stories:

  • My Brother Eli In: The Best American Short Stories 2007 p 85-112
  • Beyond the Pale in " The Best American Short Stories 2009 " pp. 41-59
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