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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FICTION OF THE FIFTIES (383 pp.)-Edited by Herbert Gold-Doubleday...
When Editor Herbert Gold polled the writers in this anthology about the special problems of writing in the '505, they responded with heart-quickening uniformity. "I would say," says one, "that the problem of writing fiction in this decade is basically no different from writing in the past." Fortunately, the short stories are a good deal better than the communal preface by their authors. The special atmosphere of the '505 is evoked by a collection whose average of competence is commendably high and whose index of brilliance is somewhat low. It is tempting to moralize that this very...
Readers who know Henry Miller only by his reputation as the bogeyman of the U.S. Bureau of Customs generally are surprised to discover that in many ways the man is as moralistic as Cotton Mather, and not much more interested in writing fiction. He seems incapable of composing more than half a dozen pages of narrative without dribbling off into the cosmic. In the present collection-largely a sampling of the literary glue that holds together the naughty passages of such works as Tropic of Cancer, Sexus, and Plexus-he interrupts a reasonably interesting travel piece to proclaim that...
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Best Sellers FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)* 2. Hawaii, Michener (2.) 3. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (6) 4. Poor No More, Ruark (4) 5. The War Lover, Hersey (3) 6. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (9) 7. Exodus, Uris (5) 8. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (7) 9. The Devil's Advocate, West (8) 10. A Fever in the Blood, Pearson NONFICTION 1 . Act One, Hart ( 1 ) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4) 3. This Is My God, Wouk (2) 4. The Status Seekers, Packard (3) 5. The Armada, Mattingly (7) 6. For 2? Plain...