H.G. Wells and John Dos Passos
Interesting discovery for me. In fall 1941, John Dos Passos met fellow writer H.G. Wells in London at the PEN Club congress. Dos Passos then visited with Wells as his […]
Breaking: John Dos Passos Society Conference 2018
Third Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference (June 20-22, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal) Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31, 2018 Graduate students wishing to be considered for supplemental travel funding must submit […]
A Big Sea Adventure
“Sailing takes me away to where I’ve always heard it could be.” The sun in your face. The wind at your back. I think if I can commit that feeling […]
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 […]
Book Talk/Signing with James McGrath Morris
Had a lovely time visiting Jamie Morris’ book talk and signing last week at One More Page Books in Arlington, Virginia. He told some great stories that kept the audience […]
New Editorial on Dos Passos by Prof. Aaron Shaheen
Dos Who? 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: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. […]
Dos Passos-Savvy
I’ve been working so hard on the Dos Passos legacy lately, I wrote a poem about it: Dos Passos-savvy When I was a boy I knew books; they showed […]
Earth Day
I found this quote quite recently in the John Dos Passos oeuvre. Given the salience of environmental matters today and always, I’m delighted to share it. It’s certainly appropriate for […]
New Review for The Ambulance Drivers
Publishers Weekly has released its review of The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War. Here is an excerpt: As Morris perceptively argues, “Unlike […]
Times for Dos Passos
These days, I’ve thought often about the political writings of John Dos Passos. I found these passages from The Theme is Freedom. They really move me. I have lots more […]