Ep. 74 Aram Saroyan, author of "Last Rites," on His Father William Saroyan
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The Great Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
He was able to handle the emotional, a cataclysm of the depression in a way that no other writer could. O he wrote, my name is arm which is lyrical, and you would never guess that this is written by an orphan. There's a wonderful letter that steinbeck, who is his closest contemporary, wrote, to a papa. And i thought the's what a wonderful, generous gift it was for him to write that.
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