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Familiarity Breeds Content : New and Selected Essays

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A collection of personal essays from America's most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America's greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a "bonfire of his own vanities," his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker. Above all, he writes about the literary life and the endless joys that reading and writing have brought to a self-confessed "lucky man."

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  • ISBN-13: 9781668009727
  • ISBN-10: 1668009722
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: April 2024
  • Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
  • Page Count: 464

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