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...goin' to get it." Only in the last 50 or 60 pages of the book does the author loosen the string of tension that she has drawn, and the story turns unnecessarily melodramatic. In the end, what promises to be one of the most acridly realistic novels since Dreiser never quite takes the prize...
Birth of a House. Liveright, who had a penchant for backing Broadway flops, needed cash, so he sold Cerf a vice-presidency for $25,000. "My first job," remembers Cerf, still awestruck, "was to take Theodore Dreiser to a ball game. Theodore Dreiser! Those were the '20s! Things were popping, and publishing was popping too! Oh God, it was a glamorous place...
...Though "fraternal guests" invited from 85 countries were unable to get U.S. visas, non-Communist newsmen were admitted for the first time-but only briefly and on condition that no pictures be taken of faces. Unfortunately, the gathering in Webster Hall looked more like a tintype from an early Dreiser novel than a revolutionary threat for the '60s. Most of the delegates were middle-aged to elderly whites, though there was a smattering of Negroes and a small youth contingent...
...DREISER, by W. A. Swanberg. A crude, naive natural writer, Dreiser was the founder and embodiment of the realistic school of writing that shocked the country in the first decades of this century. His life, like his work, was stubborn, untidy and wayward. Biographer Swanberg (Citizen Hearst) has made the most...
...DREISER, by W. A. Swanberg. A crude, naive natural writer. Dreiser was the founder and embodiment of the realistic school of writing that shocked the country in the first decades of this century. His life, like his work, was stubborn, untidy and wayward. Biographer Swanberg (Citizen Hearst) has made the most...