if you haven't read "one of ours" by will a cather, start. what you see as claude, part of an immigrant family living in the midwest, nebraska, the horror of european conflict coming and grabbing this kid's life and taking it back to the old world via these battles. willa cather -- an not intending it as antiwar novel, but it shows the cost of war. horton was watching -- writing "the age of innocence." the male writers who got to the war front by virtue of being annual and strivers, their writing was forever changed in a way that cather -- ambulance their writing was forever changed in a way that cather and others could not be. is a question on trivial pursuit today because people don't remember him, but he and hemingway were hand in hand in writing. hemingway would wait to hear what dos passos had to say is his most important critic. they would exchange works and shape them together. the analogy i use -- and art historians in the room, please don't throw any tomatoes at me, but if you ask people about ists, they say, picasso, but the reality

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