Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS AGE OF VIOLENCE, by Fredric Wertham. A clinical psychiatrist's indignant analysis of the seeds of violence in contemporary society, from toy guns and war games to TV drama and current fiction. Not even Superman or the Unknown Soldier gets a clean bill of health in this unsettling though probably oversimplified book...
...FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week...
...camp to launch a magazine on Southern affairs, which had burgeoned to 100 pages with a subscription list of more than 10,000 when she abandoned it in 1946 for full-time writing. She followed Strange Fruit with Killers of the Dream (1949) and The Journey (1954), non-fiction works in which she analyzed the psychology of prejudice and described her own spiritual development...
Literature reflects the change. In the early and primitive stages, psychological motivation was probed incessantly and mechanically. Eugene O'Neill stopped his characters in mid-dialogue for asides to the audience about what they were really thinking, and every up-to-date fiction writer streamed with stream of consciousness. Dreams were busily explored for sex, and the denial of the sex instinct was blamed for nearly everything. Seducers in novels (as well as in real life) were forever telling girls: "The trouble is you're repressed...
...different enough to offer possibilities to a competent writer who knows all about rabbis. Harry Kemelman, 57, makes the most of the possibilities. He is a Talmudic scholar who never seemed to be getting anywhere composing thoughtful essays on comparative religion. A few years ago he switched to popular fiction, invented a rabbinical sleuth named David Small, of Barnard's Crossing, Mass., and turned Friday the Rabbi Slept Late into a bestseller. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Kemelman's second book, has become a bestseller too, and deservedly so, for it is a cracking good mystery...