Monday, March 28, 2005

Dos Passos

all right we are two nations


I guess that makes him a "polarizing" writer. But the thirties were filled with polarizing, engaged writers. That was seen as a feature, not a bug.

I'd still take Dos Passos over the current crop of smirking self-absorbed hipsters.

That includes John Derbyshire. In his grouchy curmudgeon pose he is as shallow as Maureen Dowd. Just in a different way.

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