Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reader must wade through yards and yards of such silly stuff to find anything really worth rereading: a devastatingly unchivalrous-and perceptive-examination of Mary McCarthy's The Group, an equally perceptive report on the 1964 Republican National Convention, a quick survey of contemporary fiction that should rank Mailer among the better critics today...
Three spy novels that came in out of the cold war raise questions beyond the mere mechanics of this kind of fiction...
...FICTION...
...mean directing Scorpion from Chicago where he will be spending a year off. The first issues had too much social commentary ("you can get that any place") and literary criticism ("it's like hair creme -- greasy and it smells bad") for Kuttner's taste. His will be exclusively prose fiction and poetry...
...part young man on the make-whom it would be tempting to call a colored Candide, except that Odili has no innocence at all, only a naiveté that makes a farce both of his convictions and his ambition. He is, in fact, perhaps the most engaging character in fiction about Africa since the hero of Joyce Gary's Mister Johnson, who was factotum to a white colonial official...