Alex Passey
@alexpassey.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, and opinion contributor to the Winnipeg Free Press. Most importantly, a sporadic user of the oxford comma.
Me too! It was my first Doctorow book and won't be the last.
December 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Me too! It was my first Doctorow book and won't be the last.
Then he got to the south and he grapples with America not as an abstract concept, but with the vile underbelly on which the serpent has crawled since its inception. And the most important message in this book is how white supremacy will devour even the whites, should they dare to oppose it.
March 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Then he got to the south and he grapples with America not as an abstract concept, but with the vile underbelly on which the serpent has crawled since its inception. And the most important message in this book is how white supremacy will devour even the whites, should they dare to oppose it.
It was easy to assume this would be wistful author from the 60s who pulled a book out of a cross country road trip and said "voila! America!" And in truth, that is largely what it was, though Steinbeck's companionable style made it a less pretentious voyage than most.
March 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
It was easy to assume this would be wistful author from the 60s who pulled a book out of a cross country road trip and said "voila! America!" And in truth, that is largely what it was, though Steinbeck's companionable style made it a less pretentious voyage than most.