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George Garrett

The International Symposium on the Short Story, Part Three

Autumn/ September 1969

United States

By George Garrett

Anything that I have to say about short stories has to be personal, at least in part. Quite impossible for me to be “objective.” Possible, though pointless it seems to […]

Nonfiction

Summer 1961

A Wreath for Garibaldi

By George Garrett

The beginning was perfectly casual, off-hand, pleasant. We were sitting on the terrazzo of a modern Roman apartment drinking coffee and thick, sweet, bile-colored strega. It was an afternoon in […]