ABSTRACT
Bad moment for bringing out a new novel. Especially bad for a little book, familiar pattern—love, renunciation . . . Current Critical Trend Unfavorable. New Involved Journalism is all the rage. Involved Journalism is a personification of a vision, says Nat Hentoff (following Norman Mailer) in the Evergreen Review. "Who needs fiction?” says Professor Kazin in the Atlantic Monthly. "Who needs fiction in order to learn what is constantly reported by ... the magazines, newspapers, college textbooks, and television set?"
