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Joseph Epstein Information
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 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 American Scholar magazine and for his recent essay collection, Snobbery: The American Version....




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 The Washington Post
Joseph Epstein: Essay Rider
08/15/1999: 582 words, approx. 2 pages Joseph Epstein, who has always prided himself on being an ordinary man with a real life -- a down-to-earth, close-to-the-people kind of writer -- was in a Chicago butcher shop one day, discussing sports. "So, whaddya think of the Bears?" his interlocutor queried over...
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 The New York Observer
A Fair-Weather Friend Weighs the Value of Amity
7/2/2006: 1,752 words, approx. 6 pages A few years ago, Joseph Epstein, author of the popular collection of essays Snobbery: The American Version (2002), began to notice that he wasn’t enjoying many of his friendships the way he once did. They took so much time, he calculated; they required so much...
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 The New York Observer
A Fair-Weather Friend Weighs the Value of Amity
7/2/2006: 1,754 words, approx. 6 pages A few years ago, Joseph Epstein, author of the popular collection of essays Snobbery: The American Version (2002), began to notice that he wasn’t enjoying many of his friendships the way he once did. They took so much time, he calculated; they required so...



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Critical Review by William H. Pritchard
2,820 words, approx. 9 pages
 In the following review, Pritchard places Epstein's work within the literary context of the familiar essay and finds With My Trousers Rolled very readable.
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Critical Review by Sanford Pinsker
2,491 words, approx. 8 pages
 In the following review, Pinsker delineates the scope of Epstein's essays in Once More Around the Block and finds his pose as a “regular guy” to be an affectation.


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