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Set This House on Fire, by William Styron by Elmer Borklund "THE only true experience," observes the protagonist of Set This House on Fire, "is the one where a man learns…
The Noble Savage, edited by Saul Bellow, Keith Botsford, and Jack Ludwig; Love and Like, by Herbert Gold; Golk, by Richard Stern by Elmer Borklund AFTER paying his dollar and a half, the reader who prides himself on keeping up with the most promising new…