Topic: John Dos Passos

Entrepreneurs and Academics Make for Bad Bedfellows

Dilbert" cartoonist and WSJ editorial writer Scott Adams recently suggested that "B" students should be studying entrepreneurship rather than basic...

Hemingway's Workout for Boxers

My writing is nothing," " He duked it out with a hostile literary critic in his editor's office in New York, and took swings at such literary institutions as John Dos Passos and Ezra Pound. Start with smooth, controlled punches -- six to ...

John Dos Passos

Sept. 28, 1970, Baltimore, Md.), American writer, one of the major novelists of the post-World War I "lost generation," whose reputation as a social historian and as a radical critic of the quality of American life rests primarily on his trilogy U ...

Lost Generation

Lost Generation, in general, the post-World War I generation, but specifically a group of U.S. writers who came of age during the war and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term stems from a remark made by Gertrude Stein ...

Comment, May 1961

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier. The individual narratives tend to be somewhat formless and inconclusive and I think Mr. Brammer was wise to put the three into a single volume, if only because ...

Hemingway's Workout for Boxers

My writing is nothing," " He duked it out with a hostile literary critic in his editor's office in New York, and took swings at such literary institutions as John Dos Passos and Ezra Pound. Start with smooth, controlled punches -- six to ...