Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 6,000,000 newspaper readers this week goes the syndicated Sunday magazine section This Week in a new format. Cut down to Collier's-size, its new make-up eliminates "jumps," or run-overs to back pages. Its editorial ingredients are 52% articles, 48% fiction, as against its onetime mixture of 80% fiction, 20% articles (serials were dropped two years...
High on non-fiction best-seller lists was Douglas Miller's You Can't Do Business with Hitler. Little, Brown snatched that away from publishers who were offering more money for it by sending worried Author Miller (not a professional writer) a detailed chapter-by-chapter outline of the book they hoped he would write...
Carl Carmer's four volumes of non-fiction (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum, etc.) have made him one of the most popular of U.S. regional specialists. This, his first novel, is just as regional, just as competent, and will probably be even more popular than his nonfiction. Scene: Carmer's favorite Genesee country of upper New York State, where he spent his boyhood. Time: the 1790s...
Storm must be credited with the most magnificent idea behind a book this year. The storm itself (which was entirely invented, but carefully checked for accuracy) becomes absorbing as few human characters, in fiction, ever are. It is a splendid job of research and design. It is also a terrible job of writing...
...books to be talked about will be varied likewise. Instead of being laid out under imposing categories, as before (History, Poetry and Philosophy, Fiction, etc.), they compose a fluid series with a little more contemporary glitter. This Sunday Historian Allan Nevins will have a chance to link up Herodotus' History (of how the Greeks stood off the Persians) with World War II. On Dec. 14 a classic of conservatism, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, will be taken up along with a classic of revolution, Tom Paine's The Rights...