American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

Part 1 of a 9 part series on Theodore Dresier's excellent book "An American Tragedy". In this part we meet Clyde Griffiths and his family, think about the urban missionary movement of the Progressive era and ponder the impact of that lifestyle on young people.

In this one-off episide, I will be looking at Philip K. Dick's "The Penultimate Truth". It is a rich novel on fake news, labor, power, and time travel. It is one of Dick's stronger political novels. With this novel we are done with the novels of 1964. Coming up, the stories Dick published in 1964.

My final thoughts on Willa Cather's "One of Ours" as I close this series on Willa Cather's early works. Next up, Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy".

Part two of my thoughts on Willa Cather's novel "One of Ours".

A one off episode giving my thougths and complete review of "Clans of the Alphane Moon" by Philip K. Dick.

Willa Cather's Great War Novel "One of Ours" starts in familiar territory, rural Nebraska. Let me know what you thoguht of this one. Here are my comments.

And that is all she wrote for "The Simulacra". Here are my final thoughts. Up next is a one off episode on "The Clans of the Alphane Moon"

Part 4 of my thoughts on Philip K. Dick's 1964 novel "The Simulacra".

The second part (0f two) of my comments on Willa Cather's "My Antonia".

The first half of my thoughts on Willa Cather's "My Antonia", a great novel on the American frontier and the social history of American immigrant women.