Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite critical interpretations, Malamud would prefer not to see his book as a symbol of a contest in the literary world, or a failure of nerve on the part of the white writer in America today. He sees contrasts on the current scene between generations, not between races, a shift in shared experiences, rather than the triumph of wholly new subject-matter. "It's setting up false categories to say that 'Jewish writing' has had its day, and that 'black writing' or something else is taking over. History moves on. The dominant place of American-Jewish writing has abated. People...
...five years of work." Many of the places, people and situations he studied for The Tenants also provided material for his next volume of short stories. Rembrandt's Hat, which will come out this spring. Many cities consider him a better short story writer than a novelist. "I prefer short stories, because it's up to me to determine where I'm at," he comments...
...Many students prefer late night studying and for those students who share rooms, the library is the only place where they can work," the Freshman Council said in a January 10 letter to Theodore G. Alevizos. Librarian of Lamont Library...
Would you prefer it if I spoke like a critic...
...Bagdikian was "charmed as an outsider to discover that there exists in the Berkshires a paper that appeals to the New York Times reader." Eagle Managing Editor Kingsley ("Rex") Fall says: "We're proud of what we do, and we hope we're getting better, but I prefer to treat the Bagdikian reference as some sort of mild joke." Joke or not, the commendation reminded other small-city papers of what they might become...