Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also did the booknotes for the Nation. When Irita Van Doren became editor of the Herald Tribune's book section (1926), she got Bell to do its brief reviews. He has been doing them ever since. In one summer-fiction number of the supplement he guided readers to 65 examples of hammock reading, wrote nine reviews and a long article summarizing the year's light fiction-almost half the supplement...
Since A Passage to India first appeared, a small library of Indian fiction had been published. Much of it was brisk and readable. None of it attained the delicate, tough clarity of Forster's novel. Nor did any other English novelist, writing of India, possess Forster's unique talent -that of keeping his characters, their good & bad intentions, their hopes, fears and antagonisms, in a state of suspension so that their dilemma is timeless yet forever timely. No one who wanted to understand that great problem could afford to miss the reprint of Forster's novel...
...Moore never knew the wild, reckless, intoxicated efforts her friendship put them to. Dr. Aziz happily spent all his money, the resources of a lifetime, and risked his neck repeatedly, merely to take his English friends on a picnic. One of the most vividly imagined people in English fiction, normal and matter-of-fact as anybody's grandmother, Mrs. Moore set a large and strategic portion of the Empire on edge merely by being herself in an unbelievably different world...
...shot of the Lincoln statue which begins the song and the meowing cat which ends it, are a deft, valid blend of showmanship, humor and yard-wide Americanism. The wounded men in Since You Went Away really look wounded, for almost the first time in a U.S. fiction war film. There are scores of such evidences of a smart showman's eye, mind and heart. Added up, they give the picture taste, shrewdness, superiority, life. Now & then the idealization runs too far ahead of the normal reality. But by & large the blend of flesh and fantasy is pretty close...
...result is, like Santayana's The Last Puritan, a novel in the form of a memoir, not autobiographical, since it centers on someone other than the author, not fiction, since what it tells really happened, not biography, since it is not confined in a rigid framework of fact. At its best, this type of work combines the narrative interest of fiction with the educative value of biography...