Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underestimates the American public will never go broke!" cried "Professor" Irwin Corey, paraphrasing H.L. Mencken to a dazed National Book Awards' audience in Manhattan. Standing in for Thomas Pynchon, whose Gravity's Rainbow shared the 1973 fiction prize with Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, Comedian Corey confused the assembled authors, critics and publishers with a frenetic routine, prompting some to think that he was really the reclusive Pynchon himself. Others believed that his performance was a clever parody of Pynchon's tortuous style. The ceremonies were...
Theme journalism often appears to be biased reporting. But Griffith believes that bias is less prevalent than it used to be, at least among "straight" newsmen (as opposed to the underground press and New Journalists who "live at the intersection of fact and fiction"). In any event, Griffith is no preacher of bland impartiality. He argues that newsmen should have a sense of commitment and responsibility, provided that their general convictions do not cloud their judgment in handling specific stories. He urges readers to "suspect an indifference that calls itself impartiality; it is the pedestrian asset of secondrraters...
This incident of scientific fakery, described in C.P. Snow's 1960 novel The Affair, was fiction. But the drama now unfolding at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research is real. In 1970 Dr. William Summerlin, 35, reported that he had discovered a way that might make it possible to circumvent the immune-system reaction that causes the body to reject transplanted tissues or organs. Last week he stood accused by his colleagues of faking at least some of his later experiments, and was suspended from S.K.I, while a panel of scientists investigated the charges against...
Writers about the Old West are the battery hens of fiction, their relative status usually assessed in terms of yield. Questions of individual flavor, style or craft are usually redundant. Thus Louis L'Amour, who has produced 60 or so novels to date, is a spring chicken compared with Zane Grey, creator of 89 extra-large books (approximately 9 million words) between 1904 and 1939, or Max Brand (Destry Rides Again), who could turn out 14 pages an hour, and managed a total of 25 million words and 13 pen names before his death...
Paley's fiction is intensely urban. Most of her stories are about women in domestic circumstances. In Faith in the Afternoon, a harried housewife goes to visit her parents at the Children of Judea home for the aged near Coney Island and learns that the generation gap is measured in inches. In Wants, a woman concludes that her 27-year marriage ended mostly because of her lack of simple, binding covetousness...