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Edited by Saul Bellow and Keith
Botsford
Contributing Editors: John Ber·
ryman, Ralph Ellison, Herbert
Gold, Jack Ludwig, Arthur Miller,
Wright Morris, Harvey Swados
The Noble Savage prints not only stories and poetry but also memoirs, docu·
ments, personal essays,
and
the views of originals and eccentrics. In The Noble
Savage 3: Josephine Herbst's memoir of the twenties, Warren Miller on Cuba
and Herbert Gold on Miami Beach, John Berryman's India, Seymour Krim on
himself and his contemporaries; an elegant story by Thomas Pynchon, a jagged
one by
J.
R. Chowning, and other fiction about fat, clean, and soiled people by
Charles Simmons, Philip O'Connor, Jara Ribnikar, R. V. Cassill, Robert Hivnor.
Also poetry, cooked and raw, anonymous and signed "Arias" (God and physics,
NewYork City, the Germans, etc.), and, in "Ancestors," Isaac Babel's description
of his simultaneous introduction to sex and liter-ature (its debut in the U.S.).
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