The amateur
an independent life of letters
by Wendy Lesser
The Amateur is an inquiry into how we discover our passions and how they discover us. In The Amateur Lesser explores some of the choices she has made in pursuit of an old fashioned but indispensable vocation: an independent life of letters.
She discusses the place - California - in which she grew up; the institutions - Harvard, Cambridge, Berkeley - where she received her formal education; the writers, artists, and performers who deepened her critical understanding; and, finally, the literary journal she founded, The Threepenny Review, which she still edits and publishes out of the Berkeley apartment in which it began nearly twenty years ago.
Lesser describes both the events in her own life and those she has witnessed on stage, screen, canvas, and paper, noting how both experience and art teach us to observe, to discriminate, and to make sense of one another.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Biography, Critics, Periodical editors, Book reviewing, Women, biography, Women authors, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, GeneralPeople
Wendy LesserPlaces
United StatesShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters
March 7, 2000, Vintage
in English
0375703810 9780375703812
|
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters
February 2, 1999, Pantheon
in English
0375404023 9780375404023
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
The amateur: an independent life of letters
1999, Pantheon Books
in English
- 1st ed.
0375404023 9780375404023
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?
| July 15, 2024 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| November 1, 2021 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| July 31, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| February 14, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove fake subjects |
| December 9, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |