Eric Scheske
The Daily Eudemon
  • Home
  • Primary Areas
  • Endorsements
  • About/Contact
  • New: Members Only Area
Subscribe
Briefly

Joseph Epstein's Four Volumes of Mini-Biographies

Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Jun 13, 2022
Joseph Epstein's Four Volumes of Mini-Biographies

Joseph Epstein's four volumes of literary mini-biographies:

Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing (1985)

Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives (1989)

Pertinent Players: Essays on the Literary Life (1993)

Life Sentences: Literary Essays (1997)

Read next

Way of the Right Brain: Chuang-Tzu’s Genius

Way of the Right Brain: Chuang-Tzu’s Genius

Seven and a half centuries before Bodhidharma started Zen by melding Buddhism to Taoism, Chuang-Tzu danced through the world. This sly jester is second only to the old sage Lao-Tzu in Tao greatness. Chuang-Tzu championed wu-wei—the art of non-doing, of letting the world spin without your sweaty grip on
By Eric Scheske May 12, 2025
Montaigne: Smiling Skeptic

Montaigne: Smiling Skeptic

Montaigne spat on every dogma and system that strutted through the intellectual barnyard of his day. His motto: Que sais-je? (What do I know?) His answer, delivered with a smirk: Not a daggone thing. “There is a plague on man: his opinion that he knows something.” Montaigne Logic? Pfft. He’
By Eric Scheske May 8, 2025
The Stud that Was H.L. Mencken

The Stud that Was H.L. Mencken

Every so often, I plunge headlong into a Mencken spree, a vice I’ve nursed since the early 1990s when I first stumbled into Ann Arbor’s Dawn Treader Bookstore and smelled those old books (that odd but pleasing scent, I’m told, comes from vanilla releasing from the aging
By Eric Scheske Apr 7, 2025

Subscribe to The Daily Eudemon

Don't miss out on the latest news. Sign up now to get access to the library of members-only articles.
  • Sign up
The Daily Eudemon © 2025. Powered by Ghost