Bill Stott, 72 and keeping his "residual" (i.e., after prostatectomy) prostate cancer at bay,

is gathering his best short pieces on this site, hoping there are enough to make a book. Please read anything here and tell Bill--wstott@mail.utexas.edu--what you like and what isn't up to his usual (B+) standard. The pieces marked with an asterisk (*) won't go in the book.

Thursday

Allende-Pinochet, the Debate Continued

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On 15 February 2012, Jeremy, having read my article on PBS's Allende-Pinochet documentary (http://billstott.blogspot.com/2008/08/pbs-all...
Monday

Why There Are No Great Soviet (or New Deal) Novels

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In The Liberal Tradition (1950), the critic Lionel Trilling called attention to the “fatal separation” he saw between the ideas of our e...
Thursday

Hal Sheets dies: former student and great friend

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Dear University of Texas at Austin American Studies community member, Hal Sheets, who received his Ph.D. from our graduate program b...
Saturday

On the Rescue of the 33 Chilean Miners

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The hope of Lazarus now bedazzles us.
Thursday

The Death of My UT Austin Mentor, Bill Goetzmann, Is Something I Won't Get Over.

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I was Bill's assistant director in American Studies from 1971 till 1980, hired because it was thought that having been a propagandizing ...
Wednesday

Discussing Documentary; Visiting Elqui*

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My dears, Two internet postings you may want to visit. First, the filmmaker Errol Morris and I discuss Walker Evans' documentary ethics:...
Thursday

Donald Barthelme and the Death of Fiction

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The attached article changed my life. I wrote it in April-May 1969 as the final paper in a graduate course on recent American literature tau...
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