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...apart. No chart registered the collapse more quickly and more clinically than U.S. literature. World War I had been preceded and followed by unprecedented bursts of U.S. writing. The American Renaissance, as it was bravely called, was studded with innovators like Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, Vachel Lindsay, Sinclair Lewis, and with solidly good writers like Willa Gather and Ellen Glasgow. Their books were often fiercely critical of U.S. mores and motives. But they spoke to a whole nation, and in their writing itself there was a sense of national achievement...
They began by buying the printing plant of the defunct Brighton, Mass. Item for $5,500. John Dos Passos, anxious to encourage both the ambitions of the ex-G.I.s and the literary future of New England, promised them a piece on "What's Wrong in New England." Price: a $10 share of stock, a dinner and two beers. For another $10 share of stock, no dinner and no beers, they got Sinclair Lewis to promise an article on New England's writers...
...Critic Edmund Wilson has made a book of his friend's glittering, tragic life. It is in part a collection of essays, poems and letters written about Fitzgerald by his admirers (including Poets T. S. Eliot and John Peale Bishop, Critic Paul Rosenfeld, Novelist Wescott, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Wolfe). But the bulk of The Crack-Up consists of selections from Fitzgerald's own essays, stories, notebooks and letters, including the famed scarifying confession (published in Esquire in 1936) in which Fitzgerald explained his decline from high-ranking novelist to Hollywood hack. The result...
...Christ, man!" exploded Dos Passes, "how do you find time ... to worry about all that stuff? . . . We're living in one of the damnedest tragic moments in history - if you want to go to pieces I think it's absolutely O.K. but I think you ought to write a first-rate novel about it . . . instead of spilling it in little pieces." And soon Fitzgerald, with amazing fortitude, set out to do just that. "I never blame failure," he told his daughter Frances, "but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort." In The Last Tycoon he made...
Although he was the first to bring a play by John Dos Passos '16 to German audiences, Jessner's career has been associated chiefly with the classics. He directed several of Shakespeare's plays while on the continent, though never "Much Ado About Nothing," and once supervised a six-hour production of Goethe's "Faust...