Tag: E.L. Doctorow
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Rest in Peace. The phrase itself is a “dead metaphor”—so old and familiar, we no longer see it as metaphor at all. Rather, we see it as lamentable news of the most concrete, unvarnished fact of life: a death. But its root components in fact originate in an ancient metaphor, a comparison between sleep and … Read More
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I was asked by Moment Magazine to write about a book by a Jewish writer who had influenced me, and I chose Doctorow’s charming and cunningly straightforward World’s Fair, which won the National Book Award in 1986. Click here to read the article.