Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 51-year-old scholar-gypsy of the intelligentsia whose "novel" of suburban sex life (Memoirs of Hecate County) has been a scandalous success, got dug into himself by Manhattan tabloids. Court records showed that he had been successfully sued last March for separation by Wife No. 3: left-wing gypsy authoress Mary McCarthy, whose scandalous storybook, The Company She Keeps, included one called Cruel and Barbarous Treatment. Said she, she had received "abusive treatment" from Critic Wilson, cited the time he had kicked her out of bed. She said she complained the following morning...
Nancy Bruff, whose high-pressured novel The Manatee made her one of Park Avenue's greatest women writers, celebrated the pleasures of motherhood in a little piece for the New York Journal-American. In conclusion she informed her readers: "As for myself, I hope to produce another book and another baby next year...
...publishers call this novel "the publishing find of 1946 . . . the Abie's Irish Rose of publishing." They have elaborate promotion stunts all figured out: they plan to send the author on a "whirlwind" lecture tour of 60 U.S. cities, to talk on religious tolerance under the auspices of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. They have even worked out advertising tie-ups with tobacco companies-because the book speaks favorably of smoking. They have printed 125,000 copies of the book, which they claim is the largest pre-publication printing of a first novel in publishing history...
...every time he looked into The Hucksters (gossip was that his staff referred to the book in hushed tones as "That Thing"), he was not the only one. Emerson Foote, head of Foote, Cone & Belding, had been Fred Wakeman's boss and "Kim" Kimberly, agency boss in the novel, is a jittery man, given to benzedrine tablets, double Scotches, and other extravagant habits. But in this picture of an ad executive at work, friends of Foote found little they could recognize...
...scale." Readers, argues Cecil, may be overcritical of Hardy's often cumbersome, melodramatic writing if they fail to grasp that his work was modeled on the Elizabethan drama-on the wild and stormy tragedy of King Lear and The Duchess of Malfi rather than on he carefully constructed novel form of a Tolstoy or a Jane Austen. They may also become impatient with his pessimism if they do not realize that, unlike his great Elizabethan predecessors, Hardy was a reluctant atheist...