Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-06-24 | Page 11 | 'Stark Realism' Will Have Only Short Life, Libraries Are Told

'Stark Realism' WW Have Only Short Life, Libraries Are Told LOS ANGELK. June :i (AP A abort Ufa for "atark realism" In literature and for "allocking" fiction waa predicted by two of the ISO delegates aaaembled here today for the-annual convention cf the .nii-r-Ican Library aaeoctatlon. L. L. Dlckerwon, head of the In dlanapolla public library, lolj the gathering Inst night the gteatrst demanda of the reading public were. In tha order of their popularity, for blographiea. phlloaophy, psychology and eclentlflc literature which has been sufficiently humanised. "This la partly due." ho Mild, "to the emphaaie llbrarlea have pioced upon thee auhjecte. tin the other hand, tha saturntli'n point ha be.-n rrached on thia aa called Vark reallani' phase. It la true, tha moment mo-ment a book haa been reported cenaored there la a run on tha library li-brary for coplea of It. but with each aucccdlng wave of hooka of thla typa I notice a lessening In Interest. All through the hiatory Of literature you will find thla crsse for sex literature cointa In cycles. We are in one now. but I believe It haa about run Its course. W. W. Koote. head of til libirvry at Washington Htale -vllccc. said: "I'lcllon of the dar la written to shock Its readers, and the more It shocks Iheen tha better they like U. I believe it la a Jess rr.n . In llt.-n. ture and there la very little of tl thnt win ism."