Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time...
...THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time...
Died. David Stacton, 42, U.S. historical novelist; of a stroke; near Copenhagen. Often brilliant, sometimes exasperating, Stacton wrote 13 novels illuminating history's dark corners, from the courts of Pharaoh Ikhnaton (On a Balcony), to 14th century Japan (Segaki), to the assassination of Lincoln (The Judges of the Secret Court). In each, his epigrammatic, sinewy prose evoked the ambiance of an age so effectively that critics rated him one of the best of the postwar crop of American authors...
Paradise Lost. The record shows that year by year, readers tended to be more discriminating in their choice of nonfiction than fiction. In 1920, John Maynard Keynes was duly recognized for his The Economic Consequences of the Peace (No. 2 in nonfiction). But the No. 1 novelist of the year was Zane Grey, author of The Man of the Forest. Nowhere in the top ten was there mention of This Side of Paradise, the first novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...novel-but To Brooklyn with Love is not really a novel, since the author does not seem to control the recollections that sweep him along. It is a superb memoir indifferently disguised as fiction. If Albert the world's worst punchball player did not actually become Gerald the novelist, at very least they must have shared Brownsville in the 1930s. The reader sees this after 20 pages of irritation, and the awkward pretense of fiction no longer matters. The book, with all its misty ruefulness, is enormously likable...