Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Osborne has another story in the issue Sensible Things a piece which straddles the line between comedy and serious fiction a third category of 'Poon Writing. Osborne describes a young husband's first contact with infidelity and again the story is well written. It fails however in a jarring ending where Osborne shoves his hero into an action inconsistent with the character he has built up to that point...
Private Life: For relaxation, likes golf (low 80s), dancing, gin rummy, canasta ; likes a Martini or a Scotch & soda; smokes cigarettes, pipes, and especially expensive Panatella cigars. Hates dealing with household chores; likes loud sport clothes, good automobiles (he drives a Cadillac), science-fiction and westerns, comic strips (his favorite: Dick Tracy), and movies with happy endings...
Last year, in a fit of literary responsibility, New American Library decided to bring out periodic anthologies of serious work by gifted but little-known new writers. New World Writing, the first result of this decision, contains 15 pieces of fiction, a dozen poems and half a dozen critical articles. The selections are devotedly serious, they reflect solid craftsmanship, they are only rarely arresting...
...Long Memory is a "suspense" story, one of that rapidly growing species that doesn't care to be seen on the same shelf with a common whodunit but can't quite qualify as serious fiction. What lifts English Novelist Howard Clewes a few cuts above his fellow practitioners is a kit of writer's tools that many a more important novelist would be glad to borrow from. His writing is clean as a whistle, economical without being starved for words. He can get suspense without straining for it, because it is less the product of plot mechanics...
...earn his literary bread & butter many a novelist from Defoe to Dostoevsky has turned to the news for a fiction plot. The best of them make enduring fiction out of passing fact by drawing deep on their imagination. In Flee the Angry Strangers, Novelist George Mandel has picked a headline subject-drug addiction among teen-agers-but has given it little more than a gaping doubletake...