| 词条 | Joseph Epstein (writer) |
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|name = Joseph Epstein |image = |image_size = |alt = |caption = |pseudonym = Aristides |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|01|09}} |birth_place = Chicago, Illinois |occupation = Essayist, short-story writer, editor, teacher |language = English |nationality = American |citizenship = U.S. |education = B.A. |alma_mater = University of Chicago |period = |genre = Essay, short story, literary criticism |subject = |notableworks = |awards = National Humanities Medal |years_active = 1975–present |}} Joseph Epstein (born January 9, 1937) is an essayist, short-story writer, and editor. From 1974 to 1998[1] he was the editor of the magazine The American Scholar. BiographyEpstein was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1937. He graduated from Senn High School and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[2] He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960. From 1972 to 2002, he was a lecturer in English and Writing at Northwestern University and is an Emeritus Lecturer of English there. From 1974 to 1998 he served as editor of The American Scholar and wrote for it under the pseudonym Aristides.[3][4] He edited The Best American Essays (1993), the Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997), and Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (2007). His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Commentary, Harper's, The New Criterion, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, and First Things. His short stories were included in The Best American Short Stories 2007 and The Best American Short Stories 2009.[4] In 2003, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by the National Endowment for the Humanities.[5] Epstein's removal as editor of The American Scholar in 1998 (following a 1996 vote of the Phi Beta Kappa senate) was controversial.[6] Epstein later said that he was fired "for being insufficiently correct politically".[7] Some within Phi Beta Kappa attributed the senate's decision to a desire to attract a younger readership for the journal.[8] Epstein's essay "Who Killed Poetry?", published in Commentary in 1988,[9] generated discussion in the literary community decades after its publication.[10] In September 1970, Harper's Magazine published an article by Epstein called "Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity"[11] that was criticized for its perceived homophobia.[12] Epstein wrote that he considered homosexuality "a curse, in a literal sense" and that his sons could do nothing to make him sadder than "if any of them were to become homosexual."[12][13] Gay activists characterized the essay as portraying every gay man the author met, or fantasized about meeting, as predatory, sex-obsessed, and a threat to civilization.[14] In the essay, he says that, if possible, "I would wish homosexuality off the face of the earth", a statement that was interpreted by gay writer and editor Merle Miller as a call to genocide.[15] A sit-in took place at Harper's by members of the Gay Activists Alliance.[16][14] In 2015 Epstein wrote an article for The Weekly Standard in which he mentioned the Harper's article from 1970. He wrote, "I am pleased the tolerance for homosexuality has widened in America and elsewhere, that in some respects my own aesthetic sensibility favors much homosexual artistic production... My only hope now is that, on my gravestone, the words Noted Homophobe aren’t carved."[17][18][19] William F. Buckley Jr., in his review of Snobbery: The American Version, called Epstein "perhaps the wittiest writer (working in his genre) alive, the funniest since Randall Jarrell."[20] A writer for The Forward called him "perhaps the smartest American alive who also writes well."[7]VirtucratEpstein invented the word "virtucrat" and first used it in an article for The New York Times Magazine.[21] He defined a virtucrat as "any man or woman who is certain that his or her political views are not merely correct but deeply, morally righteous in the bargain."[22] In his 2016 essay collection Wind Sprints, he defines it as a person "whose politics lend them the fine sense of elation that only false virtue makes possible."[21] Selected worksEssay collections
Other non-fiction
Short-story collections
Short stories
References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Widmer|first1=Ted|title=The American Scholar: THE SCHOLAR AT 75: An Educated Guess|date=December 1, 2006 |url=https://theamericanscholar.org/an-educated-guess/|website=theamericanscholar.org}} 2. ^{{cite web|last1=Birnbaum|first1=Robert|title=Joseph Epstein - Identity Theory|url=http://www.identitytheory.com/joseph-epstein/|website=Identity Theory|date=31 August 2003}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Joseph Epstein: Department of English, Northwestern University|url=http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/emeritus/joseph-epstein.html|website=www.english.northwestern.edu}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|title=Joseph Epstein|url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1000029583&v=2.1&u=sout61408&it=r&p=CA&sw=w&asid=0adb3df0adaba011129e41c93dd9f1e7|website=Contemporary Authors Online|publisher=Gale|accessdate=4 June 2016|date=5 June 2015}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Joseph Epstein|url=http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/joseph-epstein|website=National Endowment for the Humanities|access-date=24 July 2012}} 6. ^{{cite web|last1=Grenier|first1=Cynthia|title=Conservatives on the Move|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-58329701.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924160156/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-58329701.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=24 September 2015|website=Highbeam|date=3 January 1998}} 7. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Cohen|first1=Joshua|title=Uncle Joe the Exquisite|url=http://forward.com/culture/11682/uncle-joe-the-exquisite/|website=Forward|date=25 September 2007}} 8. ^{{cite web|last1=Mahler|first1=Jonathan|title=Fresh Vision for an Intellectual Journal: Diversity, Brevity, Even a Cover Picture|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/28/arts/fresh-vision-for-an-intellectual-journal-diversity-brevity-even-a-cover-picture.html|website=The New York Times|date=28 February 1998}} 9. ^{{cite web|last1=Epstein|first1=Joseph|title=Who Killed Poetry?|url=https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/who-killed-poetry/|website=Commentary|date=1988-08-01}} 10. ^{{cite web|last1=Novak|first1=David|title=The Man Who Killed Poetry: Joseph Epstein And His Essays – Contemporary Poetry Review|url=http://www.cprw.com/the-man-who-killed-poetry-joseph-epstein-and-his-essays|website=www.cprw.com|date=6 December 2012}} 11. ^Joseph Epstein, Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity, Harper’s Magazine, September 1970 12. ^1 Larry P. Gross & James D. Woods, The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (Columbia University Press, 1999), {{ISBN|978-0231104463}}, p. 595. [https://books.google.com/books?id=am37yVCaQXAC&lpg=PA595&ots=XtI-usZALf&dq=%22Struggle%20for%20Sexual%20Identity%22%20epstein&pg=PA595#v=onepage&q=%22Struggle%20for%20Sexual%20Identity%22%20epstein&f=false Excerpts available] at Google Books. 13. ^Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America (Hachette Digital, 2012), {{ISBN|978-0446575980}}, p. 142. [https://books.google.com/books?id=me8646aJwGAC&lpg=PT142 Excerpts available] at Google Books. 14. ^1 {{cite news|author=David Ehrenstein|url=http://ehrensteinland.com/htmls/library/epstein.html |title=Sexual Snobbery: The Texture of Joseph Epstein|work=LA Weekly|date=August 30, 2002}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/merle-miller-and-the-piece-that-launched-a-thousand-it-gets-better-videos|title=Merle Miller and the Piece That Launched a Thousand "It Gets Better" Videos|website=The New Yorker|author=Emily Greenhouse|date=11 October 2012}} 16. ^Larry P. Gross, Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America (Columbia University Press, 2001), {{ISBN|978-0231119535}}, pp. 43ff. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2Kc46h0Nu6IC&lpg=PA43&ots=XBXbPqt_IT&dq=joseph%20epstein%20%22gay%20activists%20alliance%22&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q=joseph%20epstein%20%22gay%20activists%20alliance%22&f=false Excerpts available] at Google Books. 17. ^{{cite news |author=Joseph Epstein |url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/unassailable-virtue-victims_941011.html?page=3 |title=The Unassailable Virtue of Victims: On the rise of Hillary Clinton and other underdogs |work=The Weekly Standard |date=18 May 2015}} 18. ^See also Claude Summers, "Author Fears 'Noted Homophobe' Will Be Carved on His Gravestone" "The New Civil Rights Movement," 17 July 2016: |url=http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/claude_summers/the_sad_case_of_joseph_epstein?recruiter_id=833168 19. ^{{cite book |last1=Epstein |first1=Joseph |title=The Ideal of Culture |date=2018 |publisher=Axios Press |location=Edinburg, Virginia |isbn=978-1-60419-123-3 |page=112 |edition=1}} 20. ^{{cite web|last1=Buckley|first1=William F.|title=Who's he?|url=http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/snobbery-buckley-1924|website=www.newcriterion.com|date=September 2002}} 21. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Epstein|first1=Joseph|title=Wind Sprints|date=2016|publisher=Axios Press|location=Edinburg, VA|isbn=978-160419-100-4|page=51}} 22. ^{{cite book |title=Snobbery: The American Version |author=Joseph Epstein |year=2002 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company}} 23. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1493035797/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0|title=Charm: The Elusive Enchantment|last=results|first=search|date=2018-10-01|publisher=Lyons Press|isbn=9781493035793|language=English}} 24. ^The title is an allusion to Karl Shapiro's 1941 poem; see {{cite journal |work=Poetry |volume=58 |issue=4 |page=1 |date=July 1941 |title=Hospital |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=58&issue=4&page=1}} External links
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