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Subversive

Mack Reynolds

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Eventually, he signed, made the first payment, shook hands with young Dickens and saw him to the door. He said, in parting, "I still wonder why you do this, rather than dragging down unemployment insurance like most young men fresh out of school."

Warren Dickens screwed up his face. This was a question that wasn't routine. "Well, I make approximately the same, if I stick to it and get enough contracts. And, shucks they're not hard to get. And, well, I'm working, not just bumming on the rest of the country. I'm doing something, something useful."

Coty pursed his lips and shrugged. "It's been a long time since anybody cared about that." He looked after the young man as he walked down the walk.

Then he turned and headed for the phone, and ten years seemed to drop away from him. He lit the screen with a flick, dialed and said crisply, "That's him, Jerry. Going down the walk now. Don't let him out of your sight."

Jerry's face. . . Read More

Community Reviews

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I had high hopes for this book, but it turns out that when Reynolds says "subversive" he means a very particular thing he has come up with himself, which isn't actually subversive. And I profoundly disagree with his beliefs about the way writers write. So I spent most of this very long book annoyed.

An interesting book describes the lives of the major American authors of the 19th century and also describes the literary environment in which they developed their style.

in particular penny novels and newspaper articles of the time played to the public’s interest in graphic and violent stories. Man

This is a pretty interesting book about the well-trod territory of the American Renaissance writers, here defined by a big seven: Melville, Emerson, Dickinson, Whitman, Poe, Thoreau, and Hawthorne. Rather than isolated geniuses acting out against the strictures of a conventional god-fearing culture,