Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midnight with no riding-lights; blackamoors wailing in gyves under iron hatches; these things - no more than sinister rumors to the orderly citizen of 1825 - are familiar enough to all modern worthies who do any reading. They undergo, in this volume, a fastidious renaissance. Unlike many writers of "period" fiction, whose attitude to ward their material is merely that of a theatrical customer toward sale able properties, Mr. Marquand is workmanlike; he has made an at tempt to catch the temper of the proud and hazardous times of bad Eliphalet. His novel is too neat in pattern, too nervous...
...fourth number has just been published of a magazine called the "American Campus" which proposes to tell briefly what college students are doing and thinking. Judging from its contents, it either continues itself to certain colleges or roams about idiotically in the land or fiction. Whether the sentimental trash it prints is actually gleaned from real campuses, it is impossible to say. Certainly some of the publications of small time colleges show a cheapness of much the same sort. But as for such stuff bring typical of colleges throughout the county, most assuredly...
These Spring fancies which the sport writers tender their public are quite without malice or forethought. There is a simple naivete about them which should be commended and not condemned. The sport writer has become temporarily a columnist, a writer of fiction...
...English, showed her mettle. The Author. Margaret Kennedy, now 29, has shown her mettle before. In school, her poetry took a prize; but she took to prose when Poet Yeats scribbled "alpha minus" after her best effort. She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play. The Ladies of Lyndon was one of the bright features...
...that sells and sells and sells. After all, the element of luck has not played a large part in Miss Ferber's career. It was not luck that sold her very first story. It was simply that she was a good reporter, who had turned her reportorial experience into fiction by the process of studying the short stories of others. The Homely Heroine, in the collection Buttered Side Down, was her initial attempt at fiction and, if you will turn to it, you'll find that it's a good story still. She is an honest workman. She respects...