Just publirhed
''CROSS
SECTION
1948''
THE publication of
EDWIN SEAVER's
annual round-up of new writing
has come to be an event of the pub–
lishing year.
Cross Section
1948, the
fourth in this series, contains for the
first time a long humorous work–
Jessamyn West's delicious 45,000-word
satire. And there are new novelettes,
stories, essays, hitherto unpublished in
any form, by twenty more rising Amer–
ican authors.
Cross Section
1948 offers
a rewarding experience for anyone
wishing to keep abreast of the Amer–
ican literary scene. A sampling of the
table of contents follows:
Jessamyn West
"THE PISMIRE PLAN": How George
H. Pismire put over his astoundingly
original plan for a new economy is
told in a 45,000-word satirical novelette.
Robert Lowry
"THE WOLF THAT FED US": The
girls, Nina Bonte, Gianna, Angela–
they were.trying to reap something out
of the hopeless sterility of Rome in
1944.
Wright Morris
"WHERE'S JUSTICE?": They were
all captives of the plantation-the Ne–
gro boys and, most of all, the old
gentleman himself.
Prudencio de Pereda
"MY GRANDMOTHER'S NOSE": I
had plenty of admiration from men,
but I didn't seem to want that. I
loved my beauty and I loved myself,
and I didn't want my beauty to be
spoiled.
Norman Mailer
"THE NAKED AND THE DEAD":
"Yank," the Jap's voice in the dark–
ness, "We you coming to get, Yank."
Teo Savory
"BEFORE THIS, IN DREAMS":
&
the summer wore on I began to know
the habits of the household next door
as well as I know my own. She'd have
been surprised at how much I found
out.
lsidor Schneider
"THE CLASSIC OR NOTHING": It
has become practically a rule in esthetic
criticism that only the exceptional may
be accorded status as
art
at
all.
Edward McSorley
"BRING ON YOUR MIKE TWIN
SULLIVANS": He had decorated the
walls with pictures of the more elegant
funerals serviced by the Burns-Scroog
Funeral Service.
Nancy Wilson Ross
"THE NEVER NEVER BIRD": From
childhood she was always waiting for
another
miracle to happen.
Wendell Wilcox
"THOSE LITTLE THINGS HAPPEN
TO GIRLS": A strong, virile man
like you couldn't have got on all these
years just plain alone. What have you
done all these years for love, Booker?
Also contributions by Arthur Mills Strat–
ton • George P. Elliott • H. H. Rid–
dleberger • George Sturtevant • Adrian
Stoutenberg • R. E. Kendall • Ralph
Gustavson • Bernice R. Evens •
J.
Edgar
Grove • Senora Babb • Robert M. Adams
$3.50
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Simon .,nd Schuster, Publishers
