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- Apr 2025
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www.sfgate.com www.sfgate.com
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SF writer who turned down a Pulitzer and used his Oscar as a doorstop by [[Greg Keraghosian]]
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William Saroyan’s Underwood typewriter, as seen inside the Saroyan archive on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. Charles Russo/SFGATE
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By 1934, he had published a compilation of those short stories, led by the Depression-era story of a young struggling writer called “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze,” which made him famous at 26 years old. Saroyan was so in demand, his critics compared him to a cult leader.
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The word “Saroyanesque” became an adjective for any story that captured the enthusiasm and optimism of the human spirit.
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“I certainly didn’t gamble away every penny,” he wrote in a 1961 memoir. “… I drank some of it away, and I bought a raincoat.”
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- Saroyanesque
- enthusiasm
- Underwood 5
- Academy Awards
- The Human Comedy
- San Francisco
- words
- neologisms
- read
- pawn shops
- alcoholism
- 1934
- dive bars
- human spirit
- Academy Awards (missing)
- Specs' (dive bar)
- drinking
- quotes
- zeitgeist
- Louis B. Mayer
- Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
- The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
- destitution
- typewriters of authors
- William Saroyan
- gambling
- raincoats
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- Dec 2022
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www.granarybooks.com www.granarybooks.com
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https://www.granarybooks.com/pages/books/GB_176/aram-saroyan/the-letter-book?soldItem=true
Aram Saroyan decomposed a 1968 letter to his father into 195 recto pages containing fragments of the original.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>taurusnoises</span> in (2) Oblique Strategies, a custom zettelkasten for creativity : antinet (<time class='dt-published'>12/14/2022 13:07:14</time>)</cite></small>
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