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Ep. 74 Aram Saroyan, author of "Last Rites," on His Father William Saroyan

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What Impact Did Your Sister's Death Have on You?

i got a number of quotes from your father, and then we'll wrap this up. He said, i have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively,. As far as i know, it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which i am grateful. Here's another one: I'm enormously wise and abysmally ignorant. And he is a combination of a story teller and philosopher at his best. An obituary, an extraordinary book. It's the longest prose work of his career.

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