What are you reading this week of January 8, 2017?

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1. The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos

Dos Passos was born well off. He went Harvard, drove an ambulance in France and Italy during WWI, like his friend ee cummings. He became a communist and fought in Spain during the civil war and died a Goldwater Republican in 1970. Modern Library ranks his USA Trilogy 23rd among it's top 100 American novels. It spans the 1st 30 years of the 20th century. The story is told anecdotally through the lives of a changing cast of characters. 1919 is next. It's my favorite of the trilogy. Dos Passos is probably the best American novelist that no one reads any more.