The World at the End of a Line
My new article on my grandfather John Dos Passos’s love of the sea, “The World at the End of a Line,” is published online (and soon, in print) at The […]
John Dos Passos Reports at Nuremberg
Research for my speech has sharpened my appreciation for my grandfather’s prestigious reporting career. For example, Dos Passos’ observations of the Nuremberg trials in fall 1945. “Except for Hess, who […]
John Dos Passos and Democracy
“War is a time of Caesars,” wrote John Dos Passos in The Grand Design (1949). As I study biographical material for my Lisbon speech, I’m noticing material I can use […]
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 […]
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 […]