Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION...
Shakespeare told TIME that he was surprised at the extent of the blacklist, and promised its revision. Armies of the Night, he added, "won the Pulitzer Prize, and it should not be restricted." Nevertheless, the shelves will continue to ban some fiction, especially the overly sexy kind. "We are not a circulation library," says Deputy Director Henry Loomis. "We are in the business of supplying books which portray America in a fair and balanced way. Anyone who objects to this is probably in the wrong line of work...
...Russia's most promising young writers. In an open letter to Kuznetsov, Amalric criticized his fellow writer not for defecting but for paying the price of being a KGB informer in order to obtain permission to go abroad. By his own admission, Kuznetsov told the KGB "a pure fiction"-that Evgeny Evtushenko, Vasily Aksyonov and other liberal Russian writers were planning to publish "a frightful underground magazine." Though full of remorse for his denunciation, which could have cost the innocent writers seven years of hard labor, Kuznetsov justified it on the ground that the Soviet system requires writers...
...beginning is traveling with a small circus destined for the Old West town of Yellow Back Radio. When the circus gets there, it is met by a band of loving children who have succeeded in driving out the resident adults in order to "create their own fiction." But the misbegotten villain, greedy rancher Drag Gibson, slaughters the children and most of the circus, leaving only Loop Garoo to plot a spectacular revenge, complete with show-downs, hide-outs. Christ figures, and all the working magic of the American Hoo-Doo Church...
...jaded readers of international spy fiction expect to get two books in one: a perversely complicated thriller and a perverted sado-sexual romp at least as inventive as the wares on the pornography shelf. The Shadowboxer is expertly fitted out to supply both...