Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...written like a man with a bug in his ear, and the bug's favorite theme is the bad old days of predatory landowners and conscienceless capitalists. Any writer who follows this theme strictly is almost bound to fill his pages with the typed, dusty characters of proletarian fiction, Mr. Moneybags the Magnate, Mr. Whip the Overseer, Mr. Steel the Informer, Mr. Dawn the Red, Miss Cominform the Workers' Belle...
...show people outside the U.S. that "Americans can think as well as chew gum." The magazine, a pet project of the foundation's Associate Director Robert Hutchins, will be uncompromisingly highbrow, and will run original articles and reprints on literature, music, theater, history, philosophy, plus American poetry, fiction, and art. There will be no advertising, propaganda or politics. It will be printed abroad, at first in English, French, German and Italian, but other languages, e.g., Spanish. Russian and Arabic, may be added later. Perspectives will sell abroad for about 25?, while the few copies that are sold...
Perspectives' "pilot" issue is a handsome, 236-page slick-paper job with a full-color abstract design on the cover. Inside are reprints of articles by Selden Rodman, Meyer Schapiro, Thornton Wilder and others, poetry by Archibald MacLeish and Robert Lowell, and fiction by William Faulkner. The pilot issue, foundation officials explained, is not an exact standard by which to judge Perspectives; only about half the pilot articles will be in the first issue. Nevertheless, the pilot issue gave the whole project-unless substantially changed-the flavor of a "little magazine's" fragile view of American culture, blown...
Harmony on the Moon. Today, this gelatinous brain stuff, served up in pulp form, is selling at a rate never approached by Robinson Crusoe. In the Galaxy Reader, which presents 33 versions of the shape-of-things-to-come by 24 science-fiction writers, newcomers will have a chance to sample one of a half dozen such anthologies that have appeared so far this year. To help them over the bumps, Editor H. L. Gold supplies a commentary. Gold is mighty proud of his nest of singing birds, whose average age, he says, is 32 and whose work is distinguished...
...accident that the few imaginative glimmers that shine in this Galaxy do so in stories in which mechanical novelties are used merely as new surroundings for the Old Adam. If this trend can be encouraged, today's science-fiction, writers may develop to a point where their work will be almost as up to date as Daniel Defoe...