Gallimaufry

Name: Gallimaufry
Brand: Axios Press
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A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits

By: Joseph Epstein

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Hardcover | 7 January 2020

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528 Pages

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24.13 x 15.88 x 3.18

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Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. Joseph Epstein's Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits is the fifth such volume from Axios Press and contains 58 essays. Subjects range from domestic life to current social trends to an appraisal of "contemporary nuttiness." It follows the much-acclaimed Essays in Biography, 2012; A Literary Education and Other Essays, 2014; Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays, 2016; and The Ideal of Culture: Essays, 2018.After reading Epstein, we see life with a fresh eye. We also see ourselves a little more clearly. This is what Plutarch intended: life teaching by example, but with a wry smile and such a sure hand that we hardly notice the instruction. It is just pure pleasure.

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. . . Have I got the book for you. Santa Claus, take note. . . . The arrival of a new volume by Joseph Epstein, whether a single-subject book or a collection of his essays or short stories, is an event. . . . I consider Epstein to be the finest essayist and columnist on active duty today. . . . William F. Buckley Jr. . . . called Epstein "perhaps the wittiest writer alive." And the late WFB Jr. certainly knew from witty. . . . Go ahead. Treat yourself.--Larry Thornberry "The American Spectator, October 13, 2020"

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