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Phillip Lopate to give public reading

by Pat Anfinson
April 26, 2007

Rolvaag Library 525, 7:30 p.m.



Phillip Lopate will give a public reading on the subject of "Novels and Movies: a Comedy of Remarriage," and will read from his other works.

Lopate will be in residency on April 26-27 as a guest of the Boldt Chair and the English department. In addition to the public reading and booksigning on April 26, he will lead faculty and student seminars on film and visit classes in creative writing and film.

Widely considered one of the foremost American essayists and a central figure in the recent revival of interest in memoir writing, Phillip Lopate is best known for his supple and surprising essays, which have been collected most recently in Getting Personal: Selected Writings. Lopate's work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Pushcart Prize series. His most recent book of nonfiction prose is the urbanistic meditation Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan.

Also a film critic, Lopate has written about movies for The New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Cinemabook, Tikkun, and American Film, and has published The Movie That Changed My Life, Totally Tenderly Tragically, and American Movie Criticism: From the Silent Era to the Present and other works.

Contact Pat Anfinson at 507-786-3032 or panfin@stolaf.edu.