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. "

A storm of conflicting opinion is usually raised by any mention of William Saroyan, whose meteoric advent on the literary scene dates from the publication last year of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. And there is good reason for the conflicting opinion, for Saroyan is the most prolific and uneven of writers; he spouts one story after another, apparently without revision, without self-criticism, without adherence to any one style...