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  • Walter van Tilburg Clark

    Clark’s “The Portable Phonograph,” which imagines the aftermath of a devastating war, was published in the short-story collection The Watchful Gods (1950) and was much anthologized in the following decades. From the 1960s, Clark was a teacher of writing at San Francisco State College (now San…

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    Clark’s “The Portable Phonograph,” which imagines the aftermath of a devastating war, was published in the short-story collection The Watchful Gods (1950) and was much anthologized in the following decades. From the 1960s, Clark was a teacher of writing at San Francisco State College (now San…

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