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...ends; the book ends. There is no resolution. Was there a crisis? There is, at any rate, a life, and Novelist Moore has caught the reader in its snarls. This is very near the center of what novel-writing is about...
...printing plates to him free of charge. He plans to sign a contract with another publisher this week; sales, prodded by the controversy, promise to be brisk. The Digest, meanwhile, plans to watch Funk & Wagnalls products more closely than before. "We will begin reviewing all manuscripts," says Lewis. "Reader's Digest will exert tighter quality control over Funk & Wagnalls...
Here, and in half a dozen other stories in this collection, the reader feels that Elliott was stirred by the characters and their destinies long before he knew what they meant. The result is that long after the reader grasps the meaning, he, too, remains stirred...
...reader learns, for instance, about a "pretty young girl" living in Cambridge, Mass., who is warned by the reporter that LSD may cause birth defects in her children. She replies: "So what, the children will be screwed-up anyway...
Modest Conclusions. Wakefield's Supernation began life as a superstory in the Atlantic, filling nearly all of one issue. A subjective oddity is that in the Atlantic, it seemed weighty and formidable, one of those worthy projects the reader sets aside for a time when his mind and calendar are clear. But in hard cover, the text seems brief and often irritatingly superficial. Wakefield's viewpoint wavers. At times he is the visitor to a small planet-aloof, amused, rational, watching the antics of the savages. A few pages later, stumbling into earnestness, he takes the tone...