Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
"John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Harvey Keitel, Bette Midler, Faye Dunaway, Jack Lemmon, Signoury Weaver, Christopher Reeve, Lauren Bacall, Sid Viscous, Vin Deisel, and Sarah Jessica Parker... Not to mention writers Willa Cather, and John Dos Passos--who lived at #11...
PREA Prez (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961),is shown here in the far right with John Dos Passos, (far left), Joris Evans, (back to camera) and Sidney Franklin, (American bullfighter) in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. As in the past, at just about 9:20 AM this morning the kids all lined up along the hallway lockers, and as music, barely [...]
The Toynbee convector (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
If you’d run your finger along a row of hardback novels on an educated shelf in suburban America in the ’40s … Upton Sinclair, Lion Feuchtwanger, Thomas Mann … John Dos Passos, Pearl Buck, Sinclair Lewis, Romain Rolland … you’d probably have touched one or two by Sigrid Undset. “She understood not herself why she [...]
Esquire.com (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
A review of a couple of demotic novels (by John Dos Passos and William Brammer) and a few solipsistic moments.
The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Henry Regnery opened his Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher: “Every book requires justification.” So did his business. “The firm I founded was born in opposition,” Regnery wrote. “[I]t was this fact that gave it whatever distinction it attained and provides the justification.” In 1947, Regnery Publishing fit into a small office above a drugstore in [...]
man with black hat (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Ed Morrissey of Hot Air show us how we can learn from history. Imagine, if you will, reading the paper today, and finding this: It’s what our boys have been doing that worries me... Friend and foe alike, look you accusingly in the face and tell you how bitterly they are disappointed in you as an American... People never tire of telling you of the ignorance and rowdy-ism of American troops... They say...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
Russell Banks' lush new novel, "The Reserve," is set during the Depression and focuses on Jordan Groves, an uncompromising leftist painter who flies his biplane through the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, where he lives.
Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
With an obit, an Op-Ed, an editorial, blog posts and more, we've added our own cannons to the 21-gun salute to the late William F. Buckley, but before we move along, a last word on National Review, or as it...
A Shrewdness of Apes (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
You've heard the old saw about if a monkey sat down at a keyboard and typed for a million years, it would reproduce the works of Shakespeare? I have a student whose brain works the same way. You just never know what's going to come out of his mouth. I could say the strangest of words, like, say, I don't know, "effervescent," and out will come some strange mishmash of ideas and imagery-- kind of like...
ricklibrarian (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
It may seem hard to believe now, but novelists Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos were once friends. They met in Schio, Italy during World War I, where they both were ambulance drivers evacuating a field hospital. Two years later they were together in Paris, living cheaply, meeting Joyce and Stein, and reading each other's work daily. Later, back in the U.S., Hemingway introduced Dos Passos to the...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
Your birthday today: Never be satisfied with second best. Yours is the ability to do big things and you are not easily discouraged. You have a sympathetic heart and concern yourself with the misfortunes of others. You are understanding and will make a loving parent, enjoy an ideal marriage and a happy home life. There isn't anybody in the book to share today with, so look for other sympathetic hearts...
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
B orn today: Hugh Lofting, children's author, Maidenhead, Berkshire, 1886; John Dos Passos, novelist, playwright, translator, essayist, Chicago, 1896; Zacharias Topelius, poet, playwright, novelist, Kuddnäs, Russian Finland, 1818; Emily Hahn, author, adventurer, St. Louis, Mo., 1905; Tillie Olsen, novelist, Omaha, Neb., 1913; Andy Rooney, journalist, memoirist, Albany, N.Y., 1919; Yukio Mishima (ps....
The World Almanac (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
Today is the 14th day of 2008 and the 24th day of winter. TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1784, the U.S. ratified the "Treaty of Paris" that ended the Revolutionary War. In 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle...
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
For those of you who are more inclined to reading book-length works of fiction online than I am, John Dos Passos' 1922 novella One Man's Initiation - 1917 is now online at Project Gutenberg. I thoroughly enjoyed reading his Manhattan...
Moderato (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
By Morris Dickstein AMERICAN fiction lost three of its most warmly admired figures this year, all dead at the age of 84 after long careers. Critics love the idea of literary generations, but it would be a challenge to find themes or ideas to link the disparate work of Norman Mailer, Grace Paley and Kurt Vonnegut. [...]
