Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Alpert, 41, who has written for magazines as dissimilar as The New Yorker and Seventeen, has some difficulty totting up the reasons for Sally's amoral behavior. He gets in a few licks at "progressive" education, cuttingly describes the "intellectual bohemianism" of Sally's environment, and then seems to veer to a primitive belief that women lack souls-or, at any rate, consciences. At summer's end all of the men have in a sense been used up and thrown away. The women, as usual, are in control. All in all, the book is satisfactory seashore...
Death of a Poet. Author Holmes, a leading member of San Francisco's Beat Generation, makes the usual novelist's disclaimer: his characters are not real people. Still, reading his book, any sensitive cat might think of someone like Tenor Saxman Lester Young or Charley ("Yard-bird") Parker (who died in 1955 at the age of 35 because he behaved too much like Edgar Pool). The prototype for Geordie. The Horn's No. 1 chick, might be someone like Jazz Singer Billie Holiday. Actually, the resemblances are not important. This is a standard jazz story and, beyond...
...Author Holmes knows his jazz world. One of his scenes - a band rehearsal - is as funny and true as any writing about jazz in a long while. The Horn is sententious and overwritten, but it still manages to be a plausible and moving novel...
...religious biographies - might be enough to put Là-Bas off the public shelves of most libraries. It is she who leads Durtal into the obscene rituals of Satanism, presided over by an unfrocked priest. (Both the weird wife and the de frocked priest were drawn from life by Author Huysmans...
...matter - the celebrated bluenose or the historian of "Bluebeard.'' At any rate, those who look to the book for bits of cheerful pornography will be disappointed. Satanism is dismal stuff, and blasphemy meaningless to those who do not believe in the things blasphemed against. In many ways, Author Huysmans own story is more interesting than his book...