Stanley Elkin

According to the Literary Encyclopedia, Stanley Elkin (selected by Rake) "profoundly influenced many avant-garde American and European fiction writers through the example he set as a craftsman ferociously dedicated to his art and to his stylistic innovations, through his counsel in university and writers’ conference settings, though his radical innovations with the possibilities inherent in language, and through his substantial, varied body of fiction, charting the evolution of American middle-class culture from the Great Depression to the beginning of the 1990s."

More about Stanley Elkin
+  Elkin interview in The Paris Review (DNA of Literature)
+  Center for Book Culture: Interview with Elkin
+  "Reading Stanley Elkin" by Rick Moody
+  Audio interviews with Elkin
+  An interesting Washington Post Book World discussion from 2001 about Elkin's Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
+  Elkin has a spot on the St. Louis Walk of Fame

Comments

[TJ]

Everyone should read "A Poetics for Bullies" as their intro to Elkin:

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