The Loyalty of John Dos Passos

  The Loyalty of John Dos Passos (For the upcoming John Dos Passos Society Newsletter) 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,… Read more »

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! The book releases Tuesday! You can pre-order now via Amazon.

Press for The Ambulance Drivers

With the book release just a week away, press coverage is revving up for The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War by talented biographer James McGrath Morris. The New York buy cabergoline new zealand Post has a piece on it today. “The world was shattered, and Hemingway and… Read more »

New Book on the Art of Dos Passos

The Paintings and Drawings of John Dos Passos: A Collection and Study is a new book on his visual art. I love so many of those works. To me, they’re reflections of the glow inside him. That wonder for the world that kept him going despite two world wars. The editors are Donald Pizer, Lisa Nanney,… Read more »

Esquire’s Debut and Dos Passos

John Dos Passos, along with Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Auslander, Ring Lardner Jr, and Dashiell Hammett, contributed to the debut issue of Esquire magazine in 1933. In those days, novelists could really make a buck with magazine work. There was a path to solvency and even profit. Much harder today to get regular magazine gigs.

John Dos Passos Society Call for Papers: 2017 ALA

The John Dos Passos Society invites proposals for two sessions scheduled at the American Literature Association’s 28th annual conference, which will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 25-28, 2017 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend). The deadline for proposals is January 20, 2017. For further information, please consult the ALA… Read more »

On Politics

I was reading today and came across one of the punchiest ever quotes from Dos Passos. It’s found in The Fourteenth Chronicle, his poorly known but pristine collection of letters. “You think the ends justify the means and I think that all you have in politics is means; http://quotecorner.com/ventolin.html ends are always illusionary.” – John… Read more »

Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism 1910-1950

The Economist reports on a new exhibition, “Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism 1910-1950,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: In 1927 John Dos Passos, an American writer and artist, returned from a long stay in Mexico where he had been soaking up the vibrant cultural buy dostinex canada scene south of the border. Reporting on… Read more »

TAP, Portugal’s leading airline, names plane after John Dos Passos

Great news to share! TAP, Portugal’s “national flag carrier,” established in 1945, designates all aircraft in its fleet after prestigious Portuguese personalities, such as writers, historians, and navigators. It has decided to name a new Airbus buy cabergoline online canada A330 after John Dos Passos, in recognition of his contribution to art and culture.   … Read more »

Madrid Conference Recap

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga–where the John Dos Passos Society was founded–published a brief recap of the successful Madrid conference earlier this summer.

John Dos Passos Society Update

Congratulations to David Murad, the new president of the John Dos Passos Society. I’m confident in his leadership of this special group. To donate to the Society and support its mission, follow the LINK. The Society is a wonderful forum for students of all countries to find fellowship, to learn, and to think.

Manhattan Transfer Revisited

I’ve been re-reading Manhattan Transfer and enjoying it. I don’t recall when I first read it but there is no question that this current reading is more profitable. There are so many very telling and real images and touching moments of pain. The image in the excerpt below really sticks to me. As a lifelong… Read more »