Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professionally light-hearted New Yorker, which last week made this admission, has fallen more & more often in recent weeks into an uneasy, self-conscious mood. The New Yorker has not been alone. A wartime schizophrenia has touched all U.S. magazines trading in fiction and frills. And last week, in the April Harper's, Poet-Anthologist Oscar Williams culled from his correspondence with poets a summary of the wartime writer's dilemma-"a kind of Gallup poll of the soul." No writer was particularly happy in his work. Samples of unease...
...Chamber of Commerce, who had taken White to Russia with him and who does not always talk in public the way he does to "off-the-record" groups, was moved to scoot to safety: "White overemphasized the bad . . . minimized the good. . . . Moreover, there is a generous dash of fiction . . . not labeled as such...
American women come from the same pioneer stock as American men. Any picture of them weeping on the nearest shoulder, exchanging embroidery stitches, mooning and moaning over trivialities is mere fiction...
Youth's Companion & McClure's. Grown seasoned and successful as a reporter, Baker still yearned to write fiction. He wrote to the Youth's Companion to ask their requirements. The Companion, he was informed, wanted stories of irreproachable moral tone, with well-devised plots, which would not revive sectional bitterness between North and South, or between rich and poor. Baker began to write such stories, fast. Once, staying at home while his wife and baby went to Michigan, he sat in the half-darkened dining room on hot summer mornings, went nowhere...
...Labeled fiction, this is an obviously auto biographical melange of English Novelist Jameson's reminiscences and reactions to the war. Intelligent, sensitive and read able despite its overelaborate style...