Phillip Lopate on his new anthology The Glorious American Essay
b'(11/16/20)The New York Times Book Review described author, critic and Professor of Writing at Columbia University Phillip Lopate\\u2019s new anthology The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present as \\u201cmarshaling a quintessentially American vision.\\u201d 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.'