SOURCE: "Mr. Saroyan Continues to Write Very Much as He Pleases," in The New York Times Book Review, February 23, 1936, pp. 4, 13.
During his years with the publishing firm Alfred A. Knopf Strauss edited works by Kobo Abe, Junichiro Tanizaki, Yukio Mishima, and Yasunari Kawabata, thereby playing an important role in the introduction of modern Japanese literature to American readers. In the following review of Inhale and Exhale, he judges Saroyan "the most prolific and uneven of writers. "
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