Volume 9, Number 6 · October 12, 1967
In the Cage
By Irving Howe
The Prisoners of Quai Dong
by Victor Kolpacoff
New American Library, 224 pp., $4.95
The Taste of Power
by Ladislav Mnacko, translated by Paul Stevenson
Praeger, 235 pp., $5.95
Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage even though he had never panicked on a battlefield, and now Victor Kolpacoff has written The Prisoners of Quai Dong, a brilliant novel about the interrogation of a Viet Cong suspect, even though he has never set foot on Vietnamese soil. This fall hundreds of creative-writing teachers will be telling their students to write about 'things you know from your own experience.'
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