Books: Free for All?

Or Is There a "Literary Dictatorship " in New York?

From time to time the charge has been repeated that American literature and drama is controlled by a semisecret cabal of radical young critics residing in New York, but the " exposure" has never been thorough. There were rumors; there were hints; but it remained for The Boston Post to analyze the critical dictatorship with a truly ruthless pen.

The Post asserts, as one speaking with authority, that the youthful intelligentsia, occupying strategic positions in the publicity section of the literary world as editors...

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