Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggest that you change the title of your Science section to "Science Fiction." The cause of my disillusionment is your rebroadcast of the theory of Mr. Hugh Auchincloss ("Upset the World") Brown in TIME, Sept. 13. The location of the piece under "Science" and the scare headline put you in the position of trying to frighten a somewhat stupid child by telling him ghost stories . . . I enclose a 1? stamp and I suggest that you use it to start a fund to be used to buy Brown a 10? gyroscope...
...year the Journal ran the Stimson memoirs, the Stilwell diary, the Robert Capa-John Steinbeck Russian essay, a presidential series by Roger Butterfield, articles on bad housing, "The Alcoholic and His Women," and "Why Do Women Cry." By male tastes (which do not matter to the Journal), its "problem" fiction is below the standard of its articles -but it is not for want of hunting for new authors or problems. The Journal took twelve first stories (at a minimum of $750) by budding writers. Its fiction, food and architecture displays are decorated with wide-open, four-color layouts that...
Rebirth. Simon & Schuster started publishing in 1924 with $4,000 in cash and no experience, and scored their first hit with a book of crossword puzzles. Ever since they have scanned the U.S. book mart with a cold, discerning eye. They play down fiction, prefer "authoritative information" to literary excellence, and have published such spectacular moneymakers as Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People...
...fiction editor of the New Yorker, he can make a room, a house, a whole town come to life without raising his voice. Nothing happens in Time Will Darken It that small-town readers won't immediately recognize as next-door truth, but what does happen (gossip, housework, dinner parties, childbearing) is conveyed sensitively, in clean and restrained prose. Time Will Darken It is often too loosely constructed, frequently lingers with characters who don't help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author...
Readers will spot a trace of the practiced world weariness, the wry disenchantment and resigned disillusionment with which New Yorker fiction is loaded. Editor Maxwell's storytelling is of the same breed, but it is a thoroughbred in its class...