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William Saroyan

The International Symposium on the Short Story, Part Two

Winter 1969

United States

By William Saroyan

The less a writer of short stories knows about short stories the more likely he is to write them. The more anybody knows about short stories the more likely he […]

Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment

Autumn/ November 1967

O What a Man Was O. Henry

By William Saroyan

Everybody wants to have something alive to call his own, to believe is his alone, to watch, to remember, to love, to worry about, to take pride in, to believe […]