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Next Up: An American Tragedy
Settle in, friends. This could be a long one. Outside of Infinite Jest and Gone With The Wind, An American Tragedy will be the longest novel I’ve read to this point. It’s a beast at a little more than...
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The Case of Chester Gillette: The Real American Tragedy
As you might know from reading my preview of An American Tragedy, this novel is based on a true story—the Chester Gillette murder case of 1906. After dropping out of prep school, Gillette took a job at...
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Bad Dating Advice From “An American Tragedy”
As a general rule, I’ll say it’s probably a bad idea to take dating advice from novels. At the bare minimum, I’d say it’s a horrible idea to take dating advice from Clyde Griffiths, the protagonist in...
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The Ghost of Grace Brown
The real-life story that An American Tragedy is based on is full of so many twists and turns that it’s almost hard to believe. Had Chester Gillette murdered Grace Brown in 2006 instead of 1906, he...
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Three “Flaming Young Stars” Share The Big Screen
Many bad movies have been made from great novels. But I’d say that very few bad novels have been turned into great movies. So when a novel is turned into a feature film that wins 6 Academy Awards and...
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Book #44: An American Tragedy
Historically, men have done stupid things because of their lady friends. I think it’s just a fact of life. It’s not that women—at least most of them—intentionally turn guys into idiots. But, somehow,...
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The Doctorow-Dreiser Connection
As I was reading some of the early pages of Ragtime, I began to notice similarities between E.L. Doctorow’s style and that of Theodore Dreiser (who you may remember as the author of An American...
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