E.L. Doctorow, requiescat in pace ...

[Monte Davis]

When we've caught up with Against the Day, its progenitors will be waiting:

In his 1991 book *Postmodernism*, the literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote
<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/jameson/jameson.html> that “E. L.
Doctorow is the epic poet of the disappearance of the American radical
past, of the suppression of older traditions and moments of the American
radical tradition: no one with left sympathies can read these splendid
novels without a poignant distress that is an authentic way of confronting
our own current political dilemmas in the present.”

... His prime interest was the America that ran from Abraham Lincoln to
Harry Truman, the America that crushed the Confederacy but left the problem
of slavery unresolved, the America of mass immigration and
industrialization, of labor unions and robber barons...

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122346/el-doctorow-1931-2015

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> E. L. Doctorow: 1931-2015
> By Emily B. Hager | Jul. 22, 2015 | 1:59
>
> The acclaimed American novelist and playwright E. L. Doctorow gives
> some writing tips. He died Tuesday in Manhattan at the age of 84 due
> to complications from lung cancer.
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/video/obituaries/100000003669194/e-l-doctorow-1931-2015.html
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Dave Monroe
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/books/el-doctorow-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-84.html
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._Doctorow
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