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...came forward. "It had been only yesterday, in the 1930s, that the big realistic novel, with its broad social sweep, had put American literature on the world stage for the first time," Wolfe writes, apparently forgetting such pre-1930s writers as Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser. He adds that while five of the first six American Nobel laureates in literature were what he describes as realistic novelists (Pearl Buck, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck), by the '60s young writers and intellectuals regarded their kind of realism as "an embarrassment...
...suspects that Spielberg would still be restless. He would still crave those moments when he can spin amazing stories for himself, his kid sisters and a world of children in the dark. To demand that he revoke his inexhaustible thirst for wonder would be like asking Dickens to be Dreiser, or Peter Pan to settle down and become complacent old Mr. Darling...
Manhattan Publisher Donald Friede, president of Covici-Friede Corp., was convicted in Boston last week for violation of the Massachusetts statute forbidding distribution of objectionable literature. The book: Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Its theme: how U. S. conventions and his own limitations caused a young man to murder his sweetheart...
...Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy) went to bloody Harlan County, Ky., to investigate coal miners' woes. At Pineville rustic detectives said they saw Investigator Dreiser and one Marie Pergain, blonde secretary, go into Dreiser's room. The sleuths propped toothpicks against Investigator Dreiser's door. When they came back next morning, they said, the toothpicks were still in place. Investigator Dreiser, 60, and his friend were
...eventually produced sound, if unspectacular, results. They are available to Libary of America editions. Many texts have been purged of errors that crept into them over years of reprintings. Some have grown. One research team found and restored 36,000 words excised from the manuscript of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie; a forthcoming edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage adds 5,000 words that were cut before publication. When the Library of America. gets around to Crane (spring 1984) and Dreiser, editors will have to decide whether such additions constitute improvements...