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Notes on Fiction
June 11, 1930 issue

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The article discusses books and authors. "Wishbone," by a new young writer, Stirling Bowen, consists of three long short stories. The first, "An Imperfect Crime," is a clearly conceived if somewhat lengthy fictional indictment of American judicial methods; the second, "Townsman," by far the best of the three, is a realistic study of the minor tragedy implicit in the wasted life of a small-town moron; the final story, "Some Go Away," deals with more subtle psychological states and falls into sentimentality and vagueness. Bowen has an honest and searching mind and a feeling for little souls that reminds the reader of the early Sherwood Anderson.

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