New article in the Spanish press exploring Dos Passos’s travels in Spain, especially Toledo.

One of his most anthologized, most quoted passages from a long, full life of letters. It tells succinctly the American Dream’s broken promise, and now it appears in The Wall Street Journal.

Sure enough, Hotel Continental in Barcelona has a video advertising its historical significance as a residence for George Orwell during the Spanish Civil War.

It isn’t as handsome or comprehensive as Clemson University Press’s new annotated Manhattan Transfer, but an annotated edition of John Dos Passos’s Three Soldiers does exist

I’ve started digging into Donald Pizer’s new annotated version of Manhattan Transfer and it’s awesome.

This is a spectacularly innovative adaptation of John Dos Passos’s work. Enjoy this video of composer Michael Dellaira’s choral song based on Dos Passos’s biography of the Wright brothers in the USA trilogy, “The Campers at Kitty Hawk.”

The John Dos Passos Cultural Center in my family’s ancestral hometown in Ponta do Sol, Madeira (an autonomous region of Portugal) is serving its community with its new Digital Nomad initiative.

An extraordinary piece of film modernization–check out this footage of New York City in 1911, originally shot by a Swedish film crew.

It’s September 24–F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday. A word from John Dos Passos on Fitzgerald’s talent, published in The New Republic.

Major Dos Passos allusion in CBS journalist John Dickerson’s recent tribute to civil rights icon John Lewis. Wow. The quote is from Dos Passos’s The Ground We Stand On (1941).

On the 100th anniversary of the publication of John Dos Passos’s first published novel, One Man’s Initiation, scholar par excellence Lisa Nanney writes about the novel’s significance at the Liverpool University Press blog.

John Dos Passos died in 1970, the last survivor of the so-called Lost Generation. As it happens, his first novel, One Man’s Initiation: 1917, was published in 1920, offering a handy coincidence to anyone thinking of reviving his reputation.

I’ve revisited my grandfather’s very first novel, One Man’s Initiation: 1917, as I prepare to see the new film 1917, directed by Sam Mendes. Dos Passos was a novice when he wrote it, but not a fool.

What a splendid way to end the year! Yesterday, The New Yorker published a re-appraisal of John Dos Passos’ U.S.A. trilogy.

4th Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference: October 8-10, 2020 at Instituto Cervantes, New York City. Find more information within.

Congratulations to Onésimo Teotónio Almeida on winning the 2019 John Dos Passos Prize, administered by the autonomous region of Madeira. Story in Portuguese.

Successful meeting of the John Dos Passos Society last week at the annual conference of the American Literature Association in Boston, MA.

Except for Midcentury (1961), my grandfather John Dos Passos had great trouble selling books and earning critical acclaim with his books after the U.S.A trilogy (1938).

Again, per Miguel Oliveira‘s book on John Dos Passos as immigrant, many Portuguese-American immigrants change their surnames to assimilate into American culture.

Traditionally, many Portuguese coming to the United States have settled in New England, in Massachusetts or Maine, along the coast.