Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honorable mention to Cris G. Petrow '41, of Ames, Ia., for an essary entitled "Virginia Woolf and the Novel of Silence: A Study in Technique;" Robert G. Nassau '41, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; for an essay entitled "Land and the Labor Movement;" and Nathaniel W. Roe '42, of Patchogue, I. I. N. Y., for an essay entitled "The Metaphysics of Experience: An Essay on the Philosophy of A. N. Whitehead...
Israel James Kapstein (Brown '26), undergraduate friend of pinwheel-minded S. J. Perelman and the late brilliant Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), went back to Brown in 1927, has taught English there ever since. Although he publishes his first novel at the dangerously retarded age of 37, it is a good...
...Author Arthur Koestler little is definitely known. (He is said to be in London.) But he has written the most exciting novel of the season. As a war correspondent in Spain, he was captured by the Fascists, sentenced to death and released when the British Government intervened; in Cairo he once edited a German-Arabic weekly; in Haifa he once hawked lemonade in the streets. In 1939 he published a historical novel, The Gladiators, about the Spartacus revolt. From Darkness at Noon, it is obvious that he also knows Russia and the deep places of the human mind...
...THREE MOODS" cannot be reviewed as a single slim volume of verse. Inman has persuaded his publishers to bind together three full-size collections and sell them for the price of a popular novel, and his innovation is a praiseworthy step towards bringing more poetry to a larger audience. The three parts are "This I Know," a reaction to a world at war, "Hokusai Saw," an attempt to translate the atmosphere of Hokusai's Japanese prints into poetry, and "The Maples Are Red," an impressionistic chronicle of the author's childhood. "The Maples Are Red" is probably the best...
MISS GRANBY'S SECRET OR THE BASTARD OF PINSK-Eleanor Farjeon-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Period improvisations about An Old Lady's Past: notably her youthful diary and her wild, Daisy-Ashfordish first novel, which is printed entire. Bit by bit the whole thing is deft, neatly flavored, entertaining. In bulk it is more of one good thing than the average digestion can take...