Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Playboy. So teen publishers tune their message to girls between ten and 18. The leader of the pack is still Seventeen (circ. 1,300,000), but Seventeen is now 23 years old and tends to look ahead to marriage and other grown-up matters. The newer formula includes fashion, fiction, personal and beauty advice and fan articles on teen heroes-mostly recording stars. The blend varies, but all the mags strive to respond to their readers' letters...
...somewhat different version of the story, with a few four-letter words chastely omitted, appeared recently in The New Yorker. Author Barthelme, 36, qualified high among the zanier practitioners of what might be called aleatory fiction when he published his 1964 collection of short stories, Come Back, Dr. Caligari...
...been treated to for the last six months is stories about guys in love with guys. Christ, the age of anybody being in love with girls must be over!" Thus moans a female character is Eustace Chisholm and the Works. The comment sounds distressingly like today's beleaguered fiction reviewer. Perhaps the fastest-growing literary genre in these times is frankly homosexual fiction in which the demimonde of the third sex is fully exposed down to its rawest nerve ending...
...unvarying theme of Maude Hutchins' novels is the incongruity of love and the indignity of sex. This time it is traced among a genteel New England family in a drafty old house patrolled by the most inquisitive and devious child in present fiction. As her grandfather puts it, Clarissa "is an eight-year-old tape recorder," determined to hear the truth about her identity (father unknown, mother never spoken of). Staked out behind curtains and doors, she stalks the family skeletons with the patience of a gumshoe and then rattles the bones triumphantly in the face of the relative...
...Press director for 20 years, Wilson must leave because of Harvard's mandatory retirement policy. He will be a vice president and senior editor at Atheneum and will work to build the publishers' list, especially in non-fiction and scholarly works...