New Contest: Let's Title Her Next Book!
(A Projected Bio of Tennesse Williams...Maybe Some Day...)

Two weeks ago, when it was Paul Bowles's birthday, I mentioned Virginia S. Carr's Paul Bowles: A Life. Well, today is the 108th anniversary of the birth of John Dos Passos, so here's a link to the recent Northwestern University Press reissue of Carr's Dos Passos: A Life.

As an added bonus, here's an excerpt from Daniel Aaron's Writers on the Left about our birthday boy. (I could have sworn I wrote about USA for a certain online bookseller ages ago, but they're not showing it now...not the first time it's happened, by the way, and I know my memory isn't that shot.)