Three months ago, I posted on this blog “My History with The John Dos Passos Trilogy” about my long relationship with the writer and the different editions of the three books, but it didn’t stop there. With encouragement from The Gravity’s Rainbow Support Group, I pushed forward, and reread The 42nd Parallel, Nineteen Nineteen, and The Big Money.
This has led to another longer essay “The Camera Eye of Dos Passos: Looking Back at an America in Turmoil” that has just been published by the Tropics of Meta. Founded in 2010, ToM, as it affectionally known, publishes essays on history, current events and popular culture giving a wide range of latitude—including length—to its contributors. (You don’t have be an academic to write for them.)
This was my seventh essay that they have published. And I must admit all the essays germinated in some degree from The Books Shopper blog postings. A tradition continues.
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