Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...efforts at writing fiction gave him years of discouragement. When his publishers suppressed the first printing of Sister Carrie as "immoral" in 1900 he began a period of despair, ending in such poverty that he rented a $1.25-a-week room, lived on a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread a day. "A strange half-wakefulness soon came over him, during which he wandered about confused and uncertain as to what he actually was. He sometimes regarded himself as two persons ... At night, frequently, he imagined there was an intruder creeping about the room ..." Down to his last...
...well pass up The Dukays, even though the publishers are boosting it as their "major book for the spring of 1949," and Author Lajos Zilahy as "Hungary's foremost novelist." The Dukays was a Hungarian bestseller in 1947; probably nothing but a popular revolt against tinsel fiction can stop it from being equally successful...
...pincers of technology squeeze inexorably upon the poor science-fiction writer...
When the British press is criticized for its slim coverage of U.S. and world affairs, London editors have had a ready answer: the newsprint shortage. Last week the British press had its newsprint ration slightly increased-and used most of it for comic strips, features and fiction...
...additional newsprint stirred up a bitter argument in Fleet Street pubs like the Codgers and the Two Brewers. Exploded one news editor: "After all our outcry for more paper, what do we do with it? Throw it away on women's tripe, godawful strips and shoddy fiction!" Replied a feature editor: "Go bury your head! Variety, entertainment, interest . . . Let's shovel it in by the bucket...