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… U. S. A. By John Dos Passos. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. To Have and Have Not. By Ernest Hemingway. … that it is typical of action occurring at a thousand points between New York and San Francisco. Theirs is … their illusions and natural talents and sense of values die by the wayside. Wallowing in waste and indifference and …

… met Dreiser at that time, but he did meet Floyd Dell, who recommended to John Lane in London the publication of “Windy … a loneliness in which he saw the deepest of human tragedies. There is the story “Unlighted Lamps,” in which father … he so completely lived that his fiction offers so many points of contact with the characteristic philosophy of …

… prayed the Psalms silently, from memory, the monastic melodies echoing in his mind. I heard only the silent cold, … food and Fox News blaring on three televisions. On the recommendation of a Swedish friend, Benjamin, I had applied … a small wing attached only by a common stairwell with entry points to the friars’ kitchen and basement. I moved into the …

… peeled off some currency, handed it over, picked up his briefcase and walked away, never looking back. Anne was caught … keep the aimless pedestrian on the correct line between two points. How different from the dim warren of hallways in the … with a distinctive passion that was at once cool and full bodied. That’s what Eric had been trying to say in his …

… they envision TV love-bead hippies and cartoon animals and Perils of Pauline sawmills as he describes his former life on California’s North Coast, living in communes and cutting wood. Jessie starts imitating how the … the screams to flood the room; the noise is like poison. It dies down as the door closes and then it climbs back in when …