Topic: Joseph Epstein
Being?a voracious reader can engender?an enjoyment of writing as well. (Comment: )
Here is another that touches on writing style, and being yourself in your writing: I am one of the dumb ones. (Another one on being yourself in your writing ...
From David Brooks, a good essay worth reading carefully... [Recent] studies feed into the debate that is now surrounding Nicholas Carr's book, "The Shallows. " Carr argues that the Internet is leading to a short-attention-span culture. The great essayist Joseph Epstein once ...
Fred AstaireBy Joseph EpsteinYale University Press, 198 pages, $22You know youre in trouble when the author of a book on a popular artist drags in lofty literary references to justify what he clearly regards as his own intellectual slumming. In this case ...
It is always fun to see language grow. One of my favorite rising words is "kindergarchy," described here by Joseph Epstein as "rule by children," a condition whereby "children have gone from background to foreground figures in domestic life, with more and ...
