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The 42nd Parallel: Reader Response 1

I’ve been re-reading The 42nd Parallel. It might be the 3rd or 4th reading. I’m nearly finished. With this reconsideration of the work, I was hoping to come into wisdom, and I think I did.

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Breaking: 2018 John Dos Passos Society Conference

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31, 2018. Graduate students wishing to be considered for supplemental travel funding must submit a full paper by February 28, 2018.

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Dos Passos and Refugees

Even after all these years of studying his work, I still happily uncover new bits of history. And sometimes these bits are truly fascinating and uplifting.

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Happy Independence Day, U.S.A.!

Happy Independence Day! Whitman was a strong influence on John Dos Passos. I’ve nearly finishing reading Leaves of Grass and then I’m on to Democratic Vistas.

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John Dos Passos: Recorded Audio, 1965

JDP legacy news has been at king tide lately. On Twitter, I found a very rare audio recording of John Dos Passos reading from U.S.A. and discussing the influences on him as a young artist.

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The Music of Manhattan Transfer

As a lover of film music, I often think of what sort of orchestral score should accompany a potential film or TV adaptation of John Dos Passos stories.

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Tour of Duty

I’ve ordered a used copy of John Dos Passos’ Tour of Duty. I’ve never read it before and I think now is a great time for it.

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Dos Passos Farm in Summer

My grandfather wrote in summer 1916 of Dos Passos Farm…

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The Audacity of American Letters: 1916

Reading a bit of Virginia Spencer Carr’s bio of John Dos Passos for a writing gig. She writes that in 1916, Harvard did not yet have a single course in American literature.

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Dos Who?—An Editorial by Prof. Aaron Shaheen

When one thinks of the American modernist pantheon—and who doesn’t at least three times daily?—I suspect the usual names rise to the fore.

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Dos Passos in the Washington Post

Coming of age in the Washington DC area, learning how to write and finding my way as a writer, I’ve long loved The Washington Post. It represents Woodward and Bernstein. It represents truth.

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Dos Passos and the Sound of New York City

Intriguing new article in The Guardian about the “sound art” of Manhattan Transfer and parallels between Dos Passos and composer Edgar Varèse.

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Dos Passos-savvy

I’ve been doing so much JDP legacy work lately I was inspired to write a poem about it.

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Earth Day

I found this quote quite recently in the Dos Passos oeuvre. Given the salience of environmental matters today and always, I’m delighted to share it. It’s certainly appropriate for Earth Day.

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Dos Passos in the Economist

Congratulations to author James McGrath Morris for this fine review of his new Dos Passos-Hemingway book in The Economist. A career achievement indeed!

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John Dos Passos Society

Introducing the brand new John Dos Passos Society website! Join today! The next conference is in 2018 in Lisbon.

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The Loyalty of John Dos Passos

The 2016 2nd biennial John Dos Passos Society conference in Madrid brought me to joyful tears. My first trip to Madrid in 2014 gave me the chance to participate in Sonia Tercero Ramiro’s wonderful documentary on the Robles-Dos Passos story, Robles, Duelo al Sol.

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Dos Passos in the Daily Beast

Biographer James McGrath Morris, author of the new book The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War, pens a wonderful guest piece in The Daily Beast.

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The Ambulance Drivers—Santa Fe New Mexican

Another review to share for James McGrath Morris’ The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War. This time in The Santa Fe New Mexican.

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Trailer for The Ambulance Drivers

Enjoy the trailer for James McGrath Morris’ new book exploring the Hemingway-Dos Passos friendship. Morris delivers the narration in a fabulous radio voice and the pictures bring the era alive!