SOURCE: Saroyan, Aram. “The Surreal as Substance.” Los Angeles Times (30 September 1990): 11.
In the following mixed review of The Barnum Museum, Saroyan praises the wit and imagination of the stories in the collection, but contends that Millhauser tries too hard to emulate the style of such postmodern writers as Donald Barthelme.
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