Joseph Epstein

• Jan-1981
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"Ambition is not what it used to be," writes Joseph Epstein. The desire to get ahead no longer evokes the same admiration it once did�"indeed, modern novelists seem hardly able to deal with ambition without a sneer. But is ambition necessarily sy...

• Mar-1992
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• Jul-2003
• / General Fiction
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Witty, “utterly compelling” short stories about Jewish men of a certain age, by the New York Times�"bestselling author of Snobbery (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review). Set in Chicago and populated by characters ranging from lawyers and profess...

• Jun-2010
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Just as his best-selling Snobbery argued that contemporary American snobbery isnt what it used to be, Friendship: An Expos� begins with Joseph Epsteins feeling that friendship, too, is somehow different today. From the idealization of "family time" t...

• Apr-2016
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The estimable Joseph Epsteinessayist, past editor of The American Scholar , and recipient of the 2003 National Humanities Medal along with Hal Holbrook and John Updikebrings together twenty short stories in his first such collection since 2010. Mo...