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History. James Joyce called it a nightmare from which he was trying to awake. But for E.L. Doctorow it's more of an ill-defined dream state that he doggedly revisits, working all the while to get the thing decoded. In his best books, like Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, Doctorow mixes historical figures with fictional characters to discover the submerged foundations of the American psyche. His spellbinding new novel, The March (Random House; 363 pages), is one to put beside those, a ferocious reimagining of the past that returns it to us as something powerful and strange...
Norman Mailer defends his invitation of Secretary of State George Shultz as E.L. Doctorow and Nadine Gordimer counterattack. Germany's G�nter Grass squares off against Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, and some 800 delegates from more than 40 countries try to imagine "The Imagination of the State...
...Mailer's action was not reversible; once invited, the Secretary could not be uninvited. That was hardly the end of the matter, though. The day before Shultz was scheduled to appear, Novelist and PEN Board Member E.L. Doctorow protested in the New York Times: "It is more than a shame--it verges on the scandalous--that those in stewardship of American PEN and the conference should have so violated the meaning of their organization as to identify it with and put itself at the feet of the most ideologically right-wing Administration this country has seen...
...hyperbole would increase before Mailer publicly apologized for his unilateral action and Doctorow (without accepting the apology) wryly suggested that Mailer was practicing "constructive engagement of the Reagan Administration." Shultz's arrival at the opening ceremony at the main branch of the New York Public Library was greeted by an army of the night, brandishing a protest signed by 65 of the nearly 800 writers attending the congress. Amid cries of "Read the petition!" the Secretary expressed unexceptionably liberal sentiments favoring diversity and debate and condemning censorship. Shultz added to his speech by declaring in a rather general...
Author of “Billy Bathgate” and other acclaimed fiction works, Doctorow is currently the Glucksman Professor in American Letters and Professor of English at New York University...