William Saroyan

FRESNO — Both of these recipes from Fresno’s Mary Elia are featured in Breaking Bread with William Saroyan (by Janice Stevens and Pat Hunter, published in 2016 by Heliograph Publishing),[...]

It’s never easy existing in the shadow of a more famous or accomplished artist, just ask Salieri who labored for years, an accomplished composer who never quite reached his friend[...]

For over three decades, Yerevan-based translator Aram Ohanian has been “spoiling” Russian-speaking readers with his high-quality translations form English-language literature. However, he stands out among his colleagues for his[...]

As told by William Saroyan: Well, I was born there, if that helps, for birth is into the world, into the unresolved and unresolvable universe, into the entire dynamic mystery[...]

PETERSBURG, Fla. — Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian gave a reading on March 24 at the Jack Kerouac House in St. Petersburg, Florida. The legendary novelist who wrote On[...]

By Elias Trout WATERTOWN — Following the donation of Ruben Amirian’s “Homage to Mesrop Mashtots,” a 14-foot composite work celebrating the Armenian alphabet, art collector and Museum Trustee Joan Agajanian[...]

WATERTOWN — Anush Aslibekyan is a multitalented woman, a prolific theater critic, short story writer and playwright who visited the US at the end of 2022 while her play “Mercedes[...]

By Steve Hauk PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. — The following remembrance of William Saroyan and John Steinbeck by journalist and writer Steve Hauk first appeared at SteinbeckNow.com on June 19, 2021.[...]

Special to the Mirror-Spectator “Today he’s forgotten, the most forgotten famous writer of the 20th century.” Mark Arax The reception of a literary text would probably be different if we[...]

FRESNO — These recipes by Mary Elia are included in a remarkable collection that features the recipes of the pioneering Armenian women who first settled in Fresno over 120 years[...]