Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Sinclair, is above all else, a psychologist; she is that even before she is a novelist. But in this case her psychology is more akin to pathology than to an interpretation of manners and characters which is the true junction of psychological fiction. Taking a family of six children she follows their careers through the stormy era of adolescence and leaves them stranded desolate on the rocks of approaching middle age. Admittedly the family is neurotic, but disease hardly accounts for the series of catastrophes which these brothers and sisters are made to endure. Drunkenness, seduction and insanity furnish...
There are no available statistics to show how many marriages result from college engagements but if there were they would mean nothing. Higher education, properly speaking, has little to do with higher social education, although one may be obtained in the process of digging for the other. Popular fiction has over idealized scholastic matings. And now universities such as that for which the Nebraskan is the spokesman are faced with the problem of removing the gloss of idealism...
...American Mercury better fitted or more logically inclined to inveigh than upon U. S. journalism. It depends for much of its copy upon newsgatherers and editors facile enough to catch the style, and cynical enough to enjoy the viewpoint, of Editor Henry Louis Mencken. Six of its 14 non-fiction articles for April were by newspaper men and women. Few months go by without Editor Mencken's discovering some fresh way to reprove the profession in which he got his start and training and of which he has been what he likes to call a "practitioner" for nearly...
...Nathan it was who originally drew Mr. Mencken away from journalism into the naughty magazine game, but Mr. Mencken it was who, ill-satisfied with preciosity, found a publisher for a new magazine in which the emphasis on fiction was to be reduced, the sociological and intellectual emphases amplified. Mr. Mencken approached Alfred A. Knopf, a facile gentleman who at 32 had opened a whole new field for U. S. book publishers by importing the best European literature and selling it in de luxe print and jackets for fancy prices. Publisher Knopf was quick to see that any large group...
...Kitty arrives to tinker with the affections of the Prince, is divorced by Ted. At last, it seems that Ted and Jean will be able to rush off together into boundless happiness. But no-the moral ending requires that Jean and the Prince shall build anew. . . . It is entertaining fiction to read on an idle evening, despite the author's constant sermonizing on the evils of divorce. If Owen Johnson, storyteller, would oust Owen Johnson, moralist, from his works, he might resurrect the fame that was his for The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale...