Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fail to see why anybody ever rejects an occasional god-send from the publishers. In this case, the blurb writer has served up an excellent description of the story which errs only slightly on the side of hyperbole. discount the implication of the first of the following sentences and you may accept every statement at its face value...
...most perilous sports known is that of picking writers who will survive the memories of their own brief generation. There is one writer alive today, however, in whose case the game loses all its uncertainty and danger. Were it only for the remarkable span of his literary life, Thomas Hardy will be a landmark. The Victorian ago, the decadence of the nineties, the war and its subsequent unsettled period have passed by Thomas Hardy and his most recent book, published a few months ago, has enough recent writing in it to prove his imperturbability. Professor Lowes will spend an hour...
...Writer, bibliographer, collector. He trips between his Philadelphia and Manhattan homes on the clew of precious printed matter or autographs. In 1923 the Rosenbach Co., of which he is secretary, paid approximately $43,350 for another copy...
Everyone now reads so much that writers perforce take it for granted that nobody will think while he is reading. And without thought, by writer and reader alike, allegorical writing is impossible. Allegory is the only class of writing in which the imitation of outworn literary styles can justify imposing itself upon the readers' attention. There ought to be, in the Advocate articles on Merlin and on the Dragon, a neatly concealed but none the less obvious reference to some Harvard problem or situation in which everyone hereabouts is interested. Mr. Demos does this in a more direct...
...through study of current fiction in America reveals more and more those moments of reality. As the individual writer learns to see beneath his scene into reality, into that play of forces from which springs character, a stride is made toward the Promised Land of a real American literature...