Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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OGIZ is a tremendous, self-contained industry. It publishes fiction, poetry, translations, pamphlets, broadsides and books on politics, music, art, science and agriculture. It controls the production of prints and colors. It runs 14 print shops like "The Model Printery" in Moscow, which hires 2.000 workers, and "The Printing House" in Leningrad, which printed the equivalent of 24 billion pages a year before the war. It has more than 3.000 book shops, stands and rare-book stores throughout Russia. It is an influence over writers, since no book may be published without the signature of the editor of a state...
...Christy Corp. When Paramount offered Nunnally Johnson his first Holly wood job, in 1932, he had ended more than a decade of newspaper work (on the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Post) in order to devote all his time to fiction...
...people below the Rio Grande" by Latin-American writers. As such it is a notable-and readable -contribution to Pan-American understanding. It is an anthology edited by, a Colombian sociologist (for two years a visiting professor in the U.S.) of 33 selections from Latin-American history and fiction of the past 100 years. It tells about Latin America from the 16th Century to the present, is filled with heroes and villains from Pizarro to Pancho Villa, is set in cities, plains and jungles from the Caribbean to Cape Horn...
Pastoral, which was condensed in Ladies' Home Journal before book publication, is an example of popular magazine fiction at its most romantic, wholesome and reassuring...
...spite of its surface absurdities and wild overwriting, Rome Hanks is a noteworthy book. The qualities which distinguish it, and which led reviewers to praise its author's vitality, are 1) an acute disgust with the oversimplifications and idealizations of most historical fiction, 2) a pounding, repetitious style which, in 363 pages, develops considerable force, and 3) a genuine mastery of hillbilly dialogue. Readers who note how well Author Pennell pictures his plain soldiers, and how successful he is when he is not melodramatic, may wonder why he felt compelled to overload his book with lurid details, hope...