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How you know your clothes collection is a bit aged: your “low-rise” pants—helpfully marked as such on the back label, thanks, Gap!—go to just underneath your navel. Oh, 90s, you had no idea.
Philip Lopate, To Show and To Tell: Essays on the art of the personal essay. Lopate is a fan of both showing and telling, and defends the essay as a meandering exploration of a person’s thoughts, following them down whatever paths they go.
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( The origins of totalitarianism )
( the enclosure of the American mind )
( The 1940 election )
( What Marjorie Garber has been thinking about )
Philip Lopate, To Show and To Tell: Essays on the art of the personal essay. Lopate is a fan of both showing and telling, and defends the essay as a meandering exploration of a person’s thoughts, following them down whatever paths they go.
( Read more... )
( The origins of totalitarianism )
( the enclosure of the American mind )
( The 1940 election )
( What Marjorie Garber has been thinking about )
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