Word: anthologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This lament in Varvara Karbouvskaya's Bondage indicates how tired Soviet writers must be of the girl-meets-boy, girl-loves-tractor school of fiction. The 18 stories collected in this book by Anthologist Kapp cover the years from 1934 to 1956, and many of them, particularly those written after Stalin's death, reflect an impatience with Communist society that is apt to surprise U.S. readers. In Yury Nagibin's The Night Guest, a feckless sponger is held in contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly...
...Says Anthologist Newman (coauthor with Edward Kasner of Mathematics and the Imagination, a 1940 bestseller): "I'm dumbfounded at the reception the books have got. I don't write for a living. I wrote these books because I enjoyed doing it and, I suppose, because I wanted to hear myself talk-which is every author's reason for writing. The World of Mathematics is a very good book, but the fact that it's selling so well is really unrelated to the quality of the book-up to now, at least, because all that people have...
...Tireless Anthologist-Poet Louis Untermeyer, 70, paused in Denver long...
...afoul of a few Philistines. Publisher Bennett Cerf refused to kick in declaring roundly that "Poetry is dead " but when Lannan let that be known among the literati, Cerf came around. Louis Untermeyer thought the whole idea vulgar" and Poetry not worth saving. ("He's nothing but an anthologist anyway," sniffed Lannan.) One Manhattan lawyer coldly refused to help, in the apparent belief that Poet Frost was some kind of subversive. "Don't you know there's a cold war on?" he asked in an angry letter...
...writer at all, but who may well burst forth posthumously with a bestseller. Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson has been known -if at all-as a sort of two-dimensional adjunct to her great husband Robert Louis Stevenson. Now, all at once, Fanny is three-dimensional. Anthologist-Author Charles Neider, aided by infra-red and ultraviolet light, but hindered by often almost illegible handwriting, has published Fanny's diary, which he discovered gathering dust in a Monterey, Calif, museum...