#john dos passos

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Faces, hats, hands, newspapers, jiggled in the fetid roaring subway car like corn in a popper.

     —John Dos Passos, 1925

Picture: John Rutherford Boyd, In the Subway, Art Deco Style, 1928. Ink, watercolor, gouache. From 1st Dibs

#vintage NYC #1920s #John Rutherford Boyd #subway #vintage subway #John Dos Passos #subway riders #subway passengers #watercolor #painting #Art Deco

[thebeautifulbook]

MANHATTAN TRANSFER by John Dos Passos. (New York/London: Harper, 1925).

Black cloth with paper onlays on front and back boards leaving the cloth of the spine visible and with corners cut off to resemble a half-bound books.

#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #vintage books #john dos passos #1920s #book design #manhattan transfer

[cinematic-literature]

Mad Men S07E08 (Severance)

Book title: U.S.A. (1938) by John Dos Passos

It includes three novels by the American author - The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932) and The Big Money (1936).

#mad men #books in tv shows #severance #mad men season 7 #john dos passos #u.s.a. #the 42nd parallel #1919 #the big money #american literature

[davidhudson]

Blaise Cendrars, September 1, 1887 – January 21, 1961.

#blaise cendrars #literature #john dos passos

[oldshowbiz]

1955.

Banned in Chicago.

#censorship #Chicago #catcher in the rye #john dos passos #jd salinger #emile zola

[emmynominees]

david strathairn as john dos passos in hemingway & gellhorn

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or movie

#david strathairn #john dos passos #hemingway & gellhorn #supporting actor in a limited series or movie #2012

[thelastrenaissance]

Manhattan Transfer is an American novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925.

“There was Babylon and Nineveh; they were built of brick. Athens was gold marble columns. Rome was held up on broad arches of rubble. In Constantinople the minarets flame like great candles round the Golden Horn… Steel, glass, tile, concrete will be the materials of the skyscraper. Crammed on the narrow island the millionwindowed buildings will just glittering, pyramid on pyramid like the white cloudhead above a thunderstorm.”

John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer

#John Dos Passos #Manhattan Transfer #books #classic books #reading #books and reading #quotes #quote #inspiring quotes #life quotes #quoteoftheday #inspirational quotes #booklr #bookish #classic literature #literature quotes #bibliophile #books and libraries #lit #prose #spilled ink #book recommendations #literature #words #writers and poets #writing

[theglasschild]

The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk trails into tattered scraps, footsteps tap fainter in alleys); he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the wantads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boardinghouses, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not enough. At night, head swimming with wants, he walks by himself alone.

John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel

#John Dos Passos #The 42nd Parallel #quotes #quote #lit #portugal #poetry #solitude

[ebookporn]

The World at the End of a Line

The grandson of one of American literature’s Lost Generation novelists reflects on his namesake’s love of the sea

by John Dos Passos Coggin

John Dos Passos was the author of the U.S.A. trilogy, Manhattan Transfer, and Three Soldiers, among many other books, for which, in 1957, he was awarded the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He was also my grandfather. I never met him—he died 13 years before I was born—but I have been able to get a sense of his formidable spirit from old family photographs. In one of my favorites, taken when he was in his 60s, he is in a boat on the Potomac River near Dos Passos Farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The river is wide there, near where it empties into the Chesapeake Bay, and my grandfather is holding up a pufferfish, inflated in full glory before the camera. His smile swings for the fences and reminds me of something he wrote in a 1918 letter to a friend: “While we live we must make the torch burn ever brighter until it flares out in the socket.”

READ MORE

#john dos passos #authors #writers #writing #american literature #sportswriter #sea aesthetic #oceanvibes

[thelonguepuree]

She had started to drop with a lurching drop like a rollercoaster's into shuddering pits of misery … In the pit inside her thousands of gnomes were building tall brittle glittering towers.

John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer

#john dos passos #manhattan transfer

[rafaelmartinez67]

“Hay un periodo en la vida de todo hombre en que cada noche es un preludio". John Dos Passos

#john dos passos #vida #noche #preludio #sobre la marcha

[newyorkthegoldenage]

John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, 1925.

Following the success of his second novel, “Three Soldiers” (1921), a hard-bitten work of realism partly inspired by his experiences as an ambulance driver in World War I, John Dos Passos seemingly became disenchanted with the constraints of traditional narrative. Any book aiming to portray the teeming masses of New York City in all their muck and glory needed, he must have reasoned, to boldly break with tried-and-true storytelling. As such, his fourth novel forgoes conventional plot structure, pacing and characterization, instead dipping in and out of the lives of dozens of the city’s locals: immigrants, day laborers, newly minted millionaires; a killer, a dishwasher, an actress. Their lives are entwined with the fortunes and pitfalls of the metropolis and—given bits and pieces of their encounters—readers play the role of straphangers, overhearing other people’s intimacies as they course through the city. Tracking how much the city changed from the end of the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, Dos Passos reveals the grubby underside of industrialization. One moment a seamstress daydreams, the next the tulle she’s sewing catches fire, and her with it. “Manhattan Transfer” paved the way for scores of other gritty New York novels, but its blend of the poetic and the profane, not all of which has aged well, remains a product of its time. —Miguel Morales, NY Times

Picture: Original dust jacket, Wikimedia. Artist unknown.

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1920s #John Dos Passos #Manhattan Transfer #novels #1920s novels #1920s literature #Jazz Age

[intotheclash]

Dio è dalla loro parte, come i poliziotti... Quando arriverà il giorno lo ammazzeremo Dio... Io sono un anarchico. (Questa fu una delle frasi tagliate nella prima edizione italiana del 1932 dai censori di regime)

John Dos Passos - Manhattan Transfer

#libri #e censura #john dos passos

[thatwritererinoriordan]

#January 14 #John Dos Passos #Dave Grohl #Ernest Hemingway #Edgar Allan Poe #Anne Rice

[davidhudson]

John Dos Passos, January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970.

#john dos passos #literature

[jenniedavis]

John Dos Passos

#1920s #John Dos Passos