Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which is to lead up to the fact that a new literary magazine has been published, that both Hall and Train are on its staff, and that the magazine's manifesto proclaims that it will "strive to give predominant space to the fiction and poetry of both established and new writers, rather than to people who use words like Zeitgeist." The manifesto was written by William Styron, young author of the excellent novel "Lie Down in Darkness," whose pet phobia is the word, "Zeitgeist." He writes in the preface to the first issue of "The Paris Review" that "I still...
Around this molehill of fact, the picture builds a mountain of melodramatic fiction about a weather team headed by hard-boiled Chief Petty Officer Richard Widmark. When Japanese planes bomb out the weather station, Widmark and his men set out for the sea on an 800-mile trek across the desert. On the way, they encounter vicious Japanese, treacherous Chinese camel traders, and lariatswinging nomad tribesmen on Mongol ponies...
...savvy stay-at-home will quickly recognize the officers and crew of the destroyer Dreher as combat-fiction standbys, e.g., the captain, no Queeg of the Caine, but a man who wants a taut ship; the iron-man bosun, seagoing equivalent of the hard-boiled sergeant who chews nails and spits tacks; the gabby liar who peddles cheap moonshine about his adventures with women; the aloof, intellectual poetizer...
...awards. This week the University of Illinois announced the Benjamin Franklin Magazine Awards. Beginning in April of next year, seven prizes with a cash value of $500 and $1,000 will be given every year for "original reporting under adverse circumstances," best nonfiction writing on the U.S. foreign reporting, fiction, humor, personality profiles, and an open category" to be named every year. There will also be one prize (gold medal) for the magazine that has performed "the most distinguished and meritorious public service...
Kazin, author of "On Native Grounds," a book on American literature, will teach two courses during the fall term. One, a course for undergraduates entitled "Art and Expression in American Literature" will deal with the style and technique of eight or ten American masterworks of fiction, poetry, and Philosophy. He will also teach a conference group in 20th Century American criticism...