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The Fiction of American Democracy - The Wall Street Journal The Fiction of American Democracy - The Wall Street Journal Posted: 30 Oct 2020 08:56 AM PDT America's independence was won on the battlefield, but American democracy was written into existence. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution created the country that America aspires to be, where all people are created equal and politics is a common effort to establish a more perfect union. This is the ideal democracy that Walt Whitman likened to "leaves of grass": "Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,/Growing among black folks as among white,/Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same." When Whitman wrote those lines in 1855, of course, the divisions among whites, Blacks and Native Americans were stark and bloody. But like so many American writers, Whitman couldn't reconcile himself to the way reali...

Fiction: A Voice Stilled Too Soon - Wall Street Journal Fiction: A Voice Stilled Too Soon - Wall Street Journal The Fiction of American Democracy - The Wall Street Journal What parents need to know about recent movies - Washington Post The phantoms of Providence past, present, future - The Brown Daily Herald Daniel Menaker, Book Editor Who Wrote With Wit, Dies at 79 - The New York Times Fiction: A Voice Stilled Too Soon - Wall Street Journal Posted: 30 Oct 2020 08:59 AM PDT When Breece D'J Pancake took his life in 1979, at the age of 26, he had published six short stories, two of them in the Atlantic Monthly, and was on the cusp of wider literary renown. Pancake wrote about the mountainous region of southwest West Virginia, where he had grown up, and if his background made him defensive around the Southern bluebloods at the University of Virginia, where he went to graduate school, the stories he forged fro...

books 10 Fascinating Facts About Jack Kerouac - Mental Floss books 10 Fascinating Facts About Jack Kerouac - Mental Floss Exclusive Cover Reveals For The 'Faraway' Collection - The Nerd Daily They look like ordinary California news websites. Their backers: Conservative operatives - Sacramento Bee Six books to keep you up at night - Pacific Northwest Inlander books 10 Fascinating Facts About Jack Kerouac - Mental Floss Posted: 29 Oct 2020 10:14 AM PDT Around midnight one September evening in 1957, Jack Kerouac and his girlfriend, Joyce Glassman, went to the local newsstand. They were looking for the morning issue of The New York Times and its review of Kerouac's new book, On the Road . There it was, on page 27: a rave review by critic Gilbert Millstein, who declared that "Its publication is a historical occasion." That one review changed Kerouac's life, making him the most fam...