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Review: Dennis Drabelle’s The Great American Railroad War
August 23, 2012 03:05 PMThe Great American Railroad War: How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took on the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad | By Dennis Drabelle | St. Martin’s Press | 293 pages, $26.99 Though many of today’s American writers are politically aware and... Continue reading
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Look back on anger
July 30, 2012 11:10 AMI s journalist, short-story writer, and poet Ambrose Bierce one of the biggest SOBs in American literature? He is certainly among the most successful at raising hell: The bilious bravado of his newspaper writing and... Continue reading
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The Devil’s Football
December 1, 2010 04:26 PMAs we all know, serious criticism of the arts is leaving the pages of mainstream newspapers and magazines. Shrinking under the pressures of new-media innovation and the triumph of Zagat-inspired populism, the once potent prerogatives of cultural tastemakers are... Continue reading
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