Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today's fiction may be corrupting the morals of youth-but not for the reason most people think. It is not the sex, says Novelist J. B. Priestley in the New Statesman and Nation, it's the sadism...
...this cruel violence is something else. It is by no means an essential part of us. No doubt there is in us the germ of it, a spark of savagery, especially in youth. One of the aims of civilisation is to smother that spark . . . But here in this popular fiction the whole civilised trend is being carefully reversed...
...most purposes of fiction or journalism, the man who minds his own business has the same handicap as a happy family: no story. But the hit-him-again-he's-breathing mystery writers have created a whole gallery of private-eye heroes whose most exciting cases come along when they are winding up a tough assignment and contemplating a little bruise-healing solitude...
...thinks all three magazines suffer from "editorial anemia," lack ideas, drive and direction. He wants better written, better documented articles, and, for Collier's, fewer sensational science-fiction stories or what he calls "Space Cadetism." Finally, Smith wants to beef up his editorial pages...
Gouzenko's fiction is not, could not be, as explosive as his facts. The Fall of a Titan, a midsummer choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, is no literary blockbuster, but it does score a direct hit on modern Soviet man and the system that has shaped him. It reveals, despite occasional amateurish moments, that Gouzenko has a professional flair; he travels this long literary distance at an unflagging and often exciting pace...