Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to the New York Times's non-fiction bestseller list, U.S. readers, after briefly preferring Sexual Behavior in the Human Male to Peace of Mind, decided they liked Peace of Mind better, after...
...America's Family Magazine" was out to raise a bigger family of readers. Last week, as a recruiting poster, Look ran a double helping of cheesecake on its cover: a hairy-chested youth and a golden-haired girl, lolling in bathing suits more fiction than fact. The whole magazine also had a new look. A new art director, Merle Armitage, had restyled the covers (with a white background), cleaned up the cramped typography, and given the magazine a fresh, well-ventilated...
Gide averaged about a book a year (poetry, fiction, drama or criticism); he also had a hand in half a dozen magazines. On the Revue Blanche he succeeded Leéon Blum as literary critic. ("Blum has the precise kind of mind that congeals mine at a distance and whose lucid brilliance keeps mine muscle-bound as it were and reduced to impotence.") Trying his hand as a publisher, Gide pulled one of the greatest boners in literary history when he turned down a first novel by Marcel Proust: Swann...
...fiction readers, the New York Times reported, now prefer Sexual Behavior in the Human Male to Peace of Mind...
...Nazarovs is an attempt to reconstruct, in fictional form, the agony of the Russian people between 1892 and 1942. Mrs. Fischer obviously has a warm heart, an observant eye and an intelligent mind. But fiction is an art which demands more: the rare light of imagination and the difficult tools of prose...