E. L. Doctorow
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Featuring E. L. Doctorow Widely regarded as one of America’s preeminent authors, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow has published some of the most important novels in contemporary letters. His style is at once accessible and philosophically dense, and he is known for his varied and subtle prose. |
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E. L. Doctorow in conversation with Michael March We communicated by fax over the deep, blue sea. Of the twenty questions asked three were answered. |
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E. L. Doctorow: The March At five in the morning someone banging on the door and shouting, her husband, John, leaping out of bed, grabbing his riflet and Roscoe at the same time roused from the backhouse, his bare feet pounding: |
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E. L. Doctorow: The Unfeeling President I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear. |
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E. L. Doctorow: Creationists This gathering of essays is a modest celebration of the creative act. It acknowledges composition as the reigning enterprise of the human mind; it affirms that we know by what we create. |
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