Joseph Epstein (writer)

Joseph Epstein (born January 9, 1937) is a Chicagoan essayist, short story writer, and editor, best known as a former editor of the Phi Beta Kappa Society's "The American Scholar" magazine and for his recent essay collection, "Snobbery: The American Version". He was also a lecturer at Northwestern University from 1974 - 2002. He is a Contributing Editor at "The Weekly Standard" and a long-time contributor of essays and short stories to "The New Criterion" and "Commentary". The late William F. Buckley, Jr. in his review of "Snobbery" called Epstein the wittiest writer alive.

elected works

Essay collections and books

*"Divorced in America: Marriage in an age of possibility" (1974)
*"Familiar Territory: Observations on American Life" (1979)
*"Ambition: The Secret Passion" (1980)
*"Middle of My Tether: Familiar Essays" (1983)
*"Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing" (1985)
*"Once More Around the Block: Familiar Essays" (1987)
*"Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives" (1988)
*"A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays" (1991)
*"Pertinent Players: Essays on the Literary Life" (1993)
*"With My Trousers Rolled: Familiar Essays" (1995)
*"Life Sentences: Literary Essays" (1997)
*"Narcissus Leaves the Pool: Familiar Essays" (1999, paperback 2007)
*"Snobbery: The American Version" (2002)
*"Envy" (2003)
*"Friendship: An Exposé" (2006)
*"Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide" (2006)
*"In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage" (2007)
*"Fred Astaire" (2008)

hort story collections

*"The Goldin Boys: Stories " (1991)
*"Fabulous Small Jews" (2003)

hort Stories

My Brother Eli appearing in The Best American Short Stories 2007 pp. 85-112.

External links

*" [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=6187&R=C746320F0 The Culture of Celebrity: Let us now praise famous airheads] " in The Weekly Standard

*" [http://www.slate.com/id/2145712 Friends Aren't What They Used to Be: The New Ethos of Intimacy] " a review of "Friendship: An Exposé", in Slate

*" [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=13187&R=111EE2AA9E Kid Turns 70: And Nobody Cares] " in The Weekly Standard

*" [http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1525/article_detail.asp Golden Juggler] " a review of "In a Cardboard Belt!" by Joseph Tartakovsky, in the "Claremont Review of Books"