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SHERWOOD ANDERSON and H. L. Mencken pound the desk with defiant Middlewestern fists. There is none like Dreiser--a Gulliver among literary Lilliputians! they bellow. Everyone must take a week's vacation and read "An American Tragedy"; nothing short of a colossal achievement. Simultaneously other critics of an equal eminence rise in anger from their wrath on the labored, Teutonic, Kolossal opus. Written over a period over ten years, this novel, hurriedly completed in a few months, scarcely re-touched, and condensed not at all, has been published in a rough, raw, dull, and barbaric fulsomeness. Let us regurgitate, they...
...appearance. When Sinclair Lewis began his poking at the ribs of American life, he created no definite characters. He was interested alone in showing his own revolt at the existence with which his characters were faced. But with "Arrow-Smith" came force, and he had made a living being. Dreiser's characters fade before the gloom of their background dos Passos' get lost in the subway jams of Times Square. But each has an occasional flicker of reality, of being, like mannikins in a show window they sometimes seem alive...
...sarcastic in your review when writing upon Mr. T. Dreiser's book? Did you personally ever try to do a bit of real writing? Your reviews remind me a great deal of the Mexicans. They hate Gringoes like the dickens, but all they really do is snarl and growl like curs. In the Jan. 25, 1926 issue of TIME, under "Books," p. 31, you act like you have a personal grudge against the writer...
...Dreiser's Book...
...know Mr. Dreiser personally, but I do believe in fair play. ... I do not like your diction in describing his book...