Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...names that of late graced the Advocate, the 'Poon, and (caveat emptor!), the Yale Daily News. Its editor and chief backer, George A. Plimpton, headed the Lampoon four years ago, its managing editor, Thomas Guinzburg, held the same position at the Yalie Daily in 1950, while Peter Matthiessen, the fiction editor, recently taught creative writing in New Haven. Harold Humes and Thomas Spang of the business staff are local products, and Train, noted for his verse, cartoons, and stories in the 1950-51 Lampoon, is listed as the Business Manager of the Review. In short, the new publication...
...Varied Fiction...
Like the entire publication, the fiction is varied and well-balanced. The scenes of the four stories are Paris, Southern California, the American South, and a Nazi outpost in Germany during the last war, and the styles of the writers are as varied as their settings. But the noteworthy thing about the fiction is that the story which takes place in Paris cannot be called a "Paris story," just as the one which occurs on the Gulf Coast is not a "Southern story" and the German one is not a "war story." The fiction takes flavor of language and character...
...creepie-crawlies" evokes Texas and Louisiana more convincingly for me than any amount of slopped-on dialect. Matthiessen's story "A Replacement" rings true in its dialog between a captured American flier and a German officer in the dying days of the last war. The least pleasing bit of fiction is "The Accident" by a young Texas writer called Terry Southern. An excerpt from a novel, it is well-told and at times exciting, but it lacks orientation; one wants to know what came previously and what comes afterward...
...rest of the issue contains a wealth of substantial material; a crunchy interview with E. M. Forster on "The Art of Fiction," some lithe sketches by Tom Keogh, and a series of commentaries, including a particularly moving account of a Parisian cemetary, powerful in its understatement. For the former locals, Robert Bly has contributed two poems, and Train, a "Paris Commentary." The poems are enjoyable stimulants, but Train seems overwhelmed by the task of portraying the new expatriates. At any rate, his prose seems pompous and even at times mucky, a far cry from his Lampoon days...