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...HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who begins to lose his sincerity in the smugger swamps of suburbia...
...spare even his employers; he wrote of the "rivers of pornography" flowing from Fleet Street, attacked publishers as easily as Prime Ministers. When Fleet Street hit back, Churchill sued. In 1956 he recovered $14,000 in damages from The People, a Sunday paper that had called him a "paid hack." Five years later, Churchill, by then appearing in the News of the World, implied that much the same could be said of the Daily Express' political editor. The World settled that suit out of court...
...HACK by Wilfrid Sheed. 279 pages. Macmillan...
...Manhattan's April in Paris Ball politely went along with it. But it wasn't wonderful at all. It was a disaster. Glaring klieg lights wrecked the party mood. Camera cables crisscrossed the floor, making dancing treacherous. And faulty equipment on the six cameras made a hack of the schedule. The soup and salad courses never got out of the kitchen, and the entertainment by such as Jacqueline François and Frank Sinatra Jr. finally ended at 5:15 a.m., five hours late. By that time hardly anyone was left. Rose didn't last through dessert...
...will achieves a kind of faith. Author Wilfrid Sheed's funny, sad, perceptive novel turns the story upside down. It recounts the fate of a magazine writer who starts with a serene, uncluttered faith and, as it slips away from him, tries desperately to become a cynical hack...