American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

We come back to Melville with his coming of age novel set on a merchant ship in the Atlantic, "Redburn".

We come to the end of our study of Philip K. Dick's works from 1964 with "Precious Artifact".

 Enjoy the finale of my review of "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser.

In this episode we look at Philip K. Dick's short story "The Little Black Box", a story about religion, empathy, and the limits of state power.

We return to the familiar ground of frontiers in Philip K. Dick's short story on consumerism and manufactured markets in "A Game of Unchance".

In part 8 of my review of "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser we witness a trial of the ages.

In this episode, we look at "What the Dead Men Say", in which Philip K. Dick introduces the concept of half-life and plays with the power of media and corpoations.

More of Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy".

Part six of my review of "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dresier.

More silliness from 1964 Philip K. Dick in "The War with the Fnools".