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...Starting Out in the the thirties, a chatty tour of the Depression in New York and the generation of radical writers-John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, Clifford Odets, James T. Farrell, Robert Cantwell-who, like Author Kazin, were starting out in the Thirties. An essayist, critic and anthologist (F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Man and His Work; The Portable William Blake), Kazin was born in a Brooklyn slum, the son of an immigrant Polish Jew. He got his first job, as a part-time book reviewer for the New Republic, in the summer of 1934 -"that bottom summer when the first wild...
...says, "what was new about the writers of the Thirties was not so much their angry militancy as their background. When you thought of the typical writers of the Twenties, you thought of rebels from 'good' families -Dos Passes, Hemingway, Fitzgerald Cummings, Wilson, Cowley. The Thirties were the age of the plebes-of writers from the working class, the immigrant class, the nonliterate class, from Western farms and mills-those whose struggle was to survive...
...schedule is modest compared with the ten-foot shelf that French Critic Claude Roy claims to have taken on his vacation: all of Henry James, Proust, Chekhov and Henri Michaux; three volumes of Sartre's Situations; Isaac Deutscher's Trotsky, in three volumes; four F. Scott Fitzgerald novels and two by Hemingway; six art books; Nan Hoa Tchen King by Tchouang Tzeu; Leopardi's Zibaldone; and Alice in Wonderland...
Born. To R. Sargent Shriver, 49, Peace Corps and Poverty War director; and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 43: their fifth child, fourth son (her first caesarean); in Boston. Name: Paul Fitzgerald Kennedy...
Married. Jane Powell, 36, Hollywood's Baby Jane of the 1950s (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), now on the nightclub circuit; and James D. Fitzgerald, 33, her onetime business manager; she for the third time, he for the second; in Sydney, Australia, where she is on a singing tour...