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Hotel Florida
Today is publication day for Amanda Vaill’s new nonfiction book, Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War.
My Dos Passos Connection: Lucy Dos Passos Coggin
My mother, Lucy Dos Passos Coggin, provides a personal reflection on one of my grandfather’s most precious paintings.
Dos Passos in Florida
“One arrives on foot, works a year, buys an orange grove from his wages, then in five years travels in a limosine, in ten years is the founder of a city, is a millionaire or a senator–it’s the American Eden.”
The Great American Novel: “GAN”
Here is Smith College Professor Michael Gorra’s review of The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell. The new book includes Dos Passos’s U.S.A. in its discussion of literary works with national themes.
Dos Passos Reports on the “Bonus Army,” 1932
A family member shared this Library of America blog post with me. It concerns my grandfather’s writing on the “Bonus Army” encampment in Washington, DC in 1932.
Eyes on U.S.A.
Sales of Library of America’s edition of Dos Passos’s U.S.A. jumped 30 percent last year. The book was ranked number 15 on Library of America’s bestseller list.
JDP Connections: Donald Pizer
For the third entry in our web series, retitled as “Dos Passos Connections,” we have a statement from Donald Pizer, Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University.
Recent Review of U.S.A
An interesting new critical appraisal of U.S.A. at The Rumpus. I concur with the reviewer’s insistence that today’s social media universe is an expansion and reflection of the media world in U.S.A. The Newsreel segments are quite reminiscent of a Twitter feed.
Dos Passos and Faulkner
I’ve never researched the Dos Passos-Faulkner relationship, personal and professional, at length. What I do know from my general biographical knowledge is that there was a strong professional respect between the authors.
Slang in the Dos Passos Oeuvre
The fictional works of Dos Passos present a plethora of American slang.
Why John Dos Passos Matters: Miguel Oliveira
Miguel Oliveira–author, scholar, and historian–offers his perspective on Dos Passos’s art in a passage called “John Dos Passos the Cinematographer.”
Our Web Designer James L. Walker
The high aesthetic value of this website is thanks to the artistry of James Walker, professional web and graphics designer.
Happy New Year, Happy Birthday JDP
January 14, my grandfather’s birthday, is a great time to review recent Dos Passos news and ongoing projects. Happy New Year and Happy Birthday John Dos Passos!
New Book on Dos Passos by Miguel Oliveira
Portuguese author Miguel Oliveira has published a new book on my grandfather. It is called From a Man without a Country to an American by Choice: John Dos Passos and Migration.
Dos Passos in the News: National Book Award
Congratulations to George Packer for winning the National Book Award for non-fiction with his new work, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.
New Dos Passos Scholarship
Long-time JDP scholar Donald Pizer, Tulane professor emeritus, has published a new book on Dos Passos and modernism.
Sherman Alexie Wins Dos Passos Literature Prize
Congratulations to author Sherman Alexie on winning Longwood University’s John Dos Passos Literature Prize.
Why John Dos Passos Matters
The glaring question was: If we have this author at our disposal who wrote progressively about the issues we’re so concerned with today, why wouldn’t we utilize him in the classroom and in the academic journals?
