PULL DOWN VANITY (249 pp.)Leslie FiedlerLlppincott ($3.95).
Author Leslie Fiedler, previously famed as the critic who detected homosexual themes in Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick, has now carried his war against fiction behind the enemy's lines. Effectively disguised as a short-story writer, Fiedler turns out, in Pull Down Vanity, a collection of tales of the kind favored lately by modish literary quarterlies and intellectualoid slicks. They constitute the sort of kitsch fictionas stylized as the whodunit or science fictionin which every thought, character and experience is as nauseating as possible.
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