William Saroyan

The author and his 10-year-old son discuss life and enjoy companionship in their Malibu Beach home.

Shares stories of childhood as seen through the eyes of a young Armenian boy in Fresno, California.

William Saroyan contributed regularly to the publications of the Armenian Hairenik (Fatherland) Association of Boston: Hairenik Daily, Hairenik Weekly (now the Armenian Weekly), and the Armenian Review. This volume contains four plays, five verses, and 97 short stories, their original publication ranging from 1933 to 1963, culled from the pages of these three periodicals. These pieces are quintessential Saroyan. They reflect an all-pervasive consciousness...

The unsent letter, the unwritten letter, the letter that begins to write itself in the mind as soon as a human language is learned is a universal experience--as natural, as inevitable, as constant and continuous as breathing itself. The battling spirit must seek to make contact with, and to reply to, those loved, those despised, those cherished, and those rejected. In the summer of 1967, in Paris, William Saroyan, aged fifty-nine, believed he might...

A hectic week in the life of a popular writer, down on his luck, who returns to New York to sell his plays and to meet again with his ex-wife and children.

Portrait of a writer who likes to gamble, loves his two children and tries to understand his frivolous young wife.