Portuguese author Miguel Oliveira has published a new book on my grandfather. It is called From a Man without a Country to an American by Choice: John Dos Passos and Migration. The book is the product of nearly a decade of research. Townsend Ludington, Boshamer Professor Emeritus of American Studies and English at University of… Read more »
Congratulations to George Packer for winning the National Book Award for non-fiction with his new work, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America. Packer modeled the structure and theme of The Unwinding after http://laparkan.com/buy-vardenafil/ John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. New York Times journalist David Brooks acknowledges the connection to Dos Passos. Packer himself … Read more »
Long-time JDP scholar Donald Pizer, Tulane professor emeritus, has published a new book on Dos Passos and modernism. It’s buy cabergoline online uk available now on Amazon.
Congratulations to author Sherman Alexie on winning Longwood University’s John Dos Passos Literature Prize. Alexie spoke at Longwood about his literary career. I’m intrigued by the diversity of his work–from novels to poetry to short http://quotecorner.com/online-pharmacy.html stories to screenplays. Like Dos Passos, he seems to enjoy changing genres. I look forward to reading Alexie’s The… Read more »
John Dos Passos – A Necessary Addition to the 21st Century American Literature Syllabus I got interested in John Dos Passos’s work during my Master’s program at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga when Dr. Aaron Shaheen required that his students read The 42nd Parallel in a class on modern American nationalism. Being a young,… Read more »
Welcome to the official website for the art and literature of John Dos Passos. His work continues to interest scholars and readers in the United States and around the world. One of the most exciting developments in recent Dos Passos news is the 2011 founding of the John Dos Passos Society, an independent group of… Read more »
The 4th biennial conference of the John Dos Passos Society will take place October 8-10 at the Cervantes Institute in New York City. See the blog for details.
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