Phillip Lopate on his new anthology The Glorious American Essay

(11/16/20)The New York Times Book Review described author, critic and Professor of Writing at Columbia University Phillip Lopate’s new anthology The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present as “marshaling a quintessentially American vision.” The sprawling collection includes three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. Join us for a look at the history of the essay in America from an expert of the form in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.