Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great effort now was on proletarian fiction, published in the Communists' intellectual organ, the New Masses. His stories, full of romanticism and melodrama, were a summons to violence. Moscow was enraptured, cited him as "the first writer to introduce the Bolshevik into American writing...
...bear to throw them out. In England, we use gummed labels and use the envelops over and over again. There seems to be great waste everywhere." The telephone had begun to ring again. I opened the door and asked rather foolishly if she had done much reading of American fiction? We were both sort of jumping up and down with impatience by now. The hotel maid came out in the hall to watch. "Oh my yes," replied Miss Cam to my question, "I much admire Dorothy Canfield and I read a novel about New Orleans--what was it? which...
...series on the redheaded Tudor (the first, Young Bess, was a 1945 bestseller), which promises to continue as long as Miss Irwin and her readers can stand it. Meaning to be more or less true to history, it manages only to be undistinguished either as scholarship or fiction...
Crusade in Europe may well be, as its publishers claim in an awed voice, the "largest non-fiction-book publishing venture in history." In syndicated (and ineptly cut) form it went to newspapers in the U.S. and 18 foreign countries before publication, is being published in ten countries. In the U.S., over 110,000 copies have been sold to retail dealers before publication, and it is the December Book-of-the-Month Club choice (750,000 members). * It is also the apparently final answer to many of the bitterest controversies of World...
...there were less literary men and more writers on the Advocate, it would be a better magazine. Too much of its fiction, even when it has form and style, completely lacks character and emotion, which ordinarily are among the chief concerns of writers. A story in the current issue called "Love Me, Love My Novel" is just this sort of fiction. So is one called "One Less Vote For Wallace." It is about a young male reader of Thrilling Love Stories who tries to make time, on a Thrilling Love Stories basis, with a young female Wallaceite. Even...