Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Best Sellers FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week...
...Fiction of Entity
...notion of an entity called Asia is a Western fiction, it is a fiction that many Asians now support-to assert unity against the West. In South Viet Nam recently, a Japanese journalist was taken out on patrol. The Vietnamese captain of the patrol spoke neither Japanese nor English but managed to tell his guest through a U.S. interpreter: "You're an Asian. You can really understand...
Mickey Spillane is a direct literary descendant of Dashiell Hammett, although it would be imprecise to stress the word literary in reference to Spillane. Hammett, who died in 1961, created the tough-guy private eye, who has since taken up permanent residence in the ghetto world of detective fiction, but none of Hammett's many imitators ranks lower than Mickey Spillane. Anyone who bothers to measure Spillane's latest Tiger Mann mystery against this posthumous collection of Hammett's Continental Op stories, first published in the '20s in Black Mask magazine, will instantly...
...Yorker who writes English fiction and who travels on his native Dutch passport, Koningsberger waited four years for a visa, then last summer made one of those brief tours, with stops in Peking, Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow and Canton, that Peking now conducts for non-Americans...