OUR SHORT STORIES
Sir-I have recently been going through. some back numbers of The Listener cutting out the most interesting articles (there are a lot of them) before consigning the remainder to menial household duties, and at the same time I have been having a look at your stories of the last few months, What strikes one most forcibly is the extreme introspection of most of them; the long screeds of highly private musing, soul-searching, and applied psychology. Most of them are well written, and there can be no objection to such themes in moderation -they are as legitimate as any others. But when you have the whole bang lot
of them, with some exceptions, contemplating their navels with such attention it makes you wonder if they wouldn’t be better for a little fresh air.
DENNIS
McELDOWNEY
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 378, 20 September 1946, Page 5
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138OUR SHORT STORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 378, 20 September 1946, Page 5
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