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...Publisher Laughlin has pieced and pasted together a decade's representative pieces from his experimenters. Among Spearhead's contributors: E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams-both now established off-center poets; Karl Shapiro, Randall Jarrell, dithyrambling Henry Miller, William Saroyan, High Priestess Gertrude Stein, plus a host of others known only in isolated literary circles...
...William Saroyan, who also writes, prepared to send up another Saroyanesque rocket after a long, tense quiet. Out next fortnight: a new play (not yet produced), called Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine. "The action takes place in a transparent egg shell," announced Publishers Harcourt, Brace in ventriloquial tones, "inside which are miserable and majestic ruins, representing immemorial and immediate reality...
...politics, alternately putters about the Library of Congress researching a book on U.S. history. WILLIAM FAULKNER is raising corn and cotton on his Oxford, Miss. farm, writing for Hollywood "only when I run out of money," and working on a new book "off & on." In San Francisco, cocky WILLIAM SAROYAN has a novel in the works titled He Knew the Truth and Was Looking for Something Better,* but added: "This summer I plan to eat watermelons...
...Saroyan's deadpan description of its plot: "The story of a man who spends all his life in penitentiaries while society tries to determine his guilt, which appears to be that he was born out of wedlock. When his innocence is established, he is 80 years old and eager to find a wife and raise a family. On the first day of his freedom he dies in the arms of a girl of eleven who is placed in a house of correction where she dies in childbirth. Her infant son is placed in a foundling home where...
...Eugene O'Neill. 5. William Saroyan...