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TRIP TO `WINESBURG' SHOWS SMALL-TOWN DULL CAN BE DELIGHTFUL, TOO.(Entertainment)(Review)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 19961030
Author:Adcock, Joe

Early 20th-century American writers set about depicting dullness in an interesting way. One of the more successful of these writers was Sherwood Anderson. Anderson's most celebrated work is ``Winesburg, Ohio.''

Anderson, like John Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, had an absolute horror of the small-town life they fled. But, as professors of creative writing keep preaching, you've got to write about what you know.

So 1910s, '20s, '30s and '40s authors wrote about a life they could not endure: boring, ...

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