Gnomic Naïve

Chance Meetings: A Memoir By William Saroyan Norton, 135 pp., $8.95 So much for the omniscient observer. And the first-person narration. What you’ve got here is the Ethnic Naïve. An Ethnic Naïve book will be less than two hundred pages long, with deep margins (for deep marginalia) and fat, blank chapter breaks. Also simple, sentencelength paragraphs that reveal simplebut-profound truth because, well, they’re simple.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

DK

About the Author

D. Keith Mano

D. Keith Mano was a TV screenwriter and author of ten books, including Take 5, recipient of the 1987 Literary Lion award, and columnist at National Review magazine for 17 years.

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Chance Meetings: A Memoir By William Saroyan Norton, 135 pp., $8.95 So much for the omniscient observer. And the first-person narration. What you’ve got here is the Ethnic Naïve. An Ethnic Naïve book will be less than two hundred pages long, with deep margins (for deep marginalia) and fat, blank chapter breaks. Also simple, sentencelength paragraphs that reveal simplebut-profound truth because, well, they’re simple.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

DK

About the Author

D. Keith Mano

D. Keith Mano was a TV screenwriter and author of ten books, including Take 5, recipient of the 1987 Literary Lion award, and columnist at National Review magazine for 17 years.