Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smaller than the 394-page The Democratic National Convention-1936, The Book was not expected to bring in as much revenue. The 1936 non-fiction success sold at $2.50 a copy ($250 for a copy autographed by President Roosevelt), and grossed well over a million dollars. Because of the ill-timed remarks of G. O. P. Candidate Wendell Willkie, who complained that the publishing venture violated the Hatch Act, disgusted Democrats gave the 1940 edition away, 100,000 copies of it. Estimated revenue: less than a quarter of a million dollars...
This all's-well fiction continued to crumble as reports, vigorously denied by Cárdenas spokesmen, poured in from the provinces. Four men were killed in a skirmish in the northern state of Durango. A train was reported held up near Almazán's Monterrey stronghold. Armed men boarded a ship in Veracruz, seized stores of frozen meat from Argentina. A hurried visit to the capital by the military commander of Chiapas started a flood of rumors that trouble was brewing in the south...
...this great chapter, Mann makes a flat denial of those stream-of-consciousness subtleties whereby James Joyce put to shame all "psychological" fiction before and since Ulysses. Mann's own model, down to the very bumpiness and cantankerousness of the style, is the dramatic monologue as developed by Browning. Many of his gripes, grouchings and mph-mph mannerisms are hardly superior to those of a young "character" actor playing an old man. Between these strict archaic boundaries he constructs a complexity of invention, scholarly research, literary criticism, topical satire, prophecy, pure poetry. In every refraction, like the turnings...
...seven for Manhattan's four other afternoon papers), but generally arrived on the street with its news considerably behind that of other papers. Although spot-news pictures are scarce (especially from war-darkened Europe), PM carries as many as 14 pages of maps and pictures. Without advertising, fiction or advice to the lovelorn, PM gives some ten and a half pages a day to human-interest stories, features, statistical tables. Chief innovation: shopping and radio guides, omission of comics, columnists, nightclub gossip...
British Novelist William Somerset Maugham is a great believer in firsthand adventure as a source for fiction. He turned his own experiences as World War I intelligence agent into the spy novel Ashenden. Last week the aging, 66-year-old author had abundant material for a World War II novel accumulated during a 20-day voyage of escape from France in the company of 1,300 British refugees...