Please join us on Monday, July 20, 2026 for a discussion of John Dos Passos' 1930 novel "The 42nd Parallel," the first book in his "USA" trilogy. The 42nd parallel is a line of latitude that runs east-west across the United States, passing through Chicago. The author wrote in a foreword to the trilogy that "USA is the world's greatest rivervalley fringed with mountains and hills, USA is a set of bigmouthed officials with too many bankaccounts, USA is a lot of men buried in their uniforms in ...