Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate, editor, is an essayist, novelist, and poet,
whose books include Bachelorhood; Against Joie de Vivre;
Portrait of My Body; and Waterfront: A Journey Around
Manhattan. He has edited The Art of the Personal Essay and,
for The Library of America, Writing New York: A Literary
Anthology. His selected film criticism appeared in Totally
Tenderly Tragically, and he currently serves on the
selection committee of the New York Film Festival.