POSSIBLE VOGUE FOR WAR FICTION
FORECAST BY PUBLISHERS’ REPRESENTATIVE . Vl ' ew that fiction with a setting in the recent war might come into vogue soon was expressed by Mr Paul Feffer. representative in Australia and New Zealand of the New York publishers’ firm. Henry Snider and Company, in an interview in Christchurch yesterday. Mr Feffer. accompanied by his wife and daughter, is making a three-weeks’ trip of New Zealand before going to America and Britain. Discussing current trends in readers* tastes. Mr Feffer said that in the immediate post-war period there was little demand for war books. “There is no romance or glamour in war when you are so close to it,” he said. Many of the war books which had so far appeared, such as Mr Churchill’s memoirs, had a political tinge. The turn of war fiction might yet come, he considered.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26123, 27 May 1950, Page 8
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