Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is deep, as love is deep, I'll have Deeply. What is good, as love is good, I'll have well. Then if time and space Have any purpose, I shall belong to it. If not, if all is a pretty fiction To distract the cherubim and seraphim Who so continually do cry, the least I can do is to fill the curled shell of the world With human deep-sea sound, and hold...
Brave Company, by Guthrie Wilson. Rare realism in the story of a World War II infantry company in the line; fiction without the tricks of a fictioneer, by a New Zealander who was there (TIME, Sept...
...ready-to-wear drape-shape of the thriller to dress up his story. He has filled that shoddy garment with a human being whose words and acts carry a raw, boozy reek of vitality. Manley Halliday is one of the few credible portraits of a writer in recent U.S. fiction...
...Real Toot. The fiction, moreover, is in good part fact. Novelist Schulberg* was one of the young devotees who in the early '30s sat around Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, watched his creative fires exhaust themselves under the Hollywood pot, and remembered how those fires had lighted a generation on its way in such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby...
...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Gary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME...