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INHALE & EXHALE-William Saroyan- Random House...
Until William Saroyan burst from his cell last year with a whole series of yells, Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen) was the only Armenian writer U. S. readers were aware of. Apart from their ancestry the two have little in common. Michael Arlen, called brilliantine if not brilliant, has taken all Mayfair for his province. William Saroyan is astounded, delighted, agonized by the mystery of his own breathing. His first collection of outbursts was called The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (TIME, Oct. 22, 1934). His second is even more appropriately titled Inhale & Exhale...
...tales as he has ever edited. Notable this year more than in the past is a proportionate preponderance of young writers who have already made names for themselves. Sally Benson contributes a whimsical piece called "The Overcoat," and our friends Erskine Caldwell, Morley Callaghan, Paul Horgan, Allan Seager, William Saroyan and Thomas Wolfe all come in once apiece. None of this galaxy has written what this reviewer considers the piece de resistance of the collection, however, which is a story called "The Party Next Door" by Ernost Brace, first appearing in the magazine "Story...
...finds Editor O'Brien viewing the future of the short story with profound alarm. The year 1934 was a bad one, in which only 200 stories were found worthy of three stars, but it was "a notable" year for new writers, producing Dorothy McCleary, Allan Seager and William Saroyan. Editor O'Brien finds the short story threatened by the developing political interests of editors and critics, utters a dark warning against Fascism - Fascism from the left as well as from right-and complains that there are now too many little magazines...
...Story became their legal property, the Burnetts staying on as editors, working alternate weeks as usual. Under the Cerf management. Story grew to some 30,000 circulation but it got few advertisements, showed no profit. It attracted the manuscripts of many an ambitious U. S. writer, "discovered" William Saroyan, Tess Slesinger, Peter Neagoe, Dorothy McCleary. Surprising was the fact that the stories in Story were not better than they were. To describe them critics invented the phrase, "The Over-the-Edge-of-the-Table School," meaning that Story stones generally had the point of view of children peering...