This week, in a grim, confusing world, U. S. publishers turned out some 40 new books of fictionsizable harvest of a crop that will reach some 1,400 for the full year.
U. S. literature begins on courthouse steps, in general stores where men chaw, whittle and tell tales. With a fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil(University of North Carolina Press; $2). Their themes are lady-killing fiddlers, horse races, knife duels, preachers, hunting...
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