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...East of Eden, the best that can be said is that its earlier chapters compare favorably with the minor novels of Sholom Asch. The worst that can be said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years...
AMERICAN STUFF-An Anthology-Viking ($2). Creative work of sincerity but varying merit, done by 66 WPA artists and writers from 20 States (in their spare time). Veterans include Vardis Fisher, Nathan Asch, Claude McKay, Vincent McHugh, Harry Kemp...
...Song of the Open Road many a U. S. writer has attempted a modern sequel to that ringing inventory of the U. S. scene. Bravest of these attempts have come from such contemporary novelists as John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe. To the lesser footnotes Novelist Nathan Asch (The Office, Pay Day) this week added his own modestly tentative, well-written account of what the U. S. means after a four-month bus trip...
Like Dos Passos, Author Asch believes the way to go about anatomizing the U. S. is to examine the private histories of the people who are not news. "What I wanted to see was what was so typical that to the natives it was almost banal." He took a bus because it was cheapest, because train travel is stilted and because in an automobile "the only ones you get to talk to are filling station men and traffic cops." In a bus the atmosphere is unaffected, intimate. "Under the murderous vibration . . . you've got to relax . . . everybody sings...
...time Asch reached Salt Lake City, after imbibing with oil drillers in a hotel room and looking over the Colorado sugar beet fields, his insides felt jolted loose and he was beginning to have nightmares in which he saw himself being mangled in a nation-wide traffic smashup...