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Stanley Elkin Bibliography

Stanley ElkinThis is the online bibliography for Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin, published by the University of Illinois Press in 2010. All citations from that book refer to this bibliography.

Readers seeking the most thorough bibliography of works by and about Elkin are advised to consult William H,. Robins, Stanley Elkin: A Comprehensive Bibliography  (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009), to which, along with its 1986 predecessor, this bibliography is greatly indebted.

Figure 1: Elkin in 1989, photo copyright 1991 by David C. Dougherty

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Novels

Boswell: A Modern Comedy. New York: Random House, 1964; London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964; New York: Berkeley Publishing, 1967; New York: Warner Books, 1980; New York: Dutton Obelisk, 1986; Thunder鈥檚 Mouth Press; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1999.

Published Separately

  • 鈥淏oswell Steps Out,鈥 Esquire, July 1964: 64-69, 96, 98-99.
  • 鈥淭he Great Sandusky,鈥 Paris Review 32 (1964): 78-91. Paris Review Prize for Humor.
  • 鈥淭he Transient,鈥 The Saturday Evening Post, 25 Apr 1964: 54-60.
  • 鈥淭he Transient,鈥 Best American Short Stories 1965.  Ed. Martha Foley.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin. 1965.
  • 鈥淭he Transient.鈥 Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Greatest Hits.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1980.

A Bad Man. New York: Random House, 1967; London: Anthony Blond, 1968;  New York: Berkeley Publishing, 1971; New York: Warner Books, 1980; New York: Dutton Obelisk, 1984;  Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 2003, foreword by David C. Dougherty.

Translations

  • Warui Otoko. Tokoy Shincho-Sha, 1971.  Translator: Terakado Yasuhiko.
  • Un Sale Type. Paris: Henri Veryer, 1977.  Translator: Jean-Pierre Carasso,

Published Separately

  • 鈥淓verything Must Go!鈥  The Saturday Evening Post, 31 Jul 1965: 50-54, 56-57.
  • 鈥淭he Garbage Dump,鈥 The Saturday Evening Post 22 Apr 1967: 60-62.
  • 鈥淭he Merchant of New Desires,鈥 The Saturday Evening Post 6 May 1967: 70-72, 74, 76.
  • 鈥淔eldman and Son,鈥 Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Greatest Hits.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1980.

The Dick Gibson Show. New York: Random House, 1971; London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1971; New York: Pocket Books, 1972; New York: Warner books, 1980; New York: Dutton Obelisk, 1983; Thunder鈥檚 Mouth Press, 1991; Normal, IL:  Dalkey Archive, 1998.

Published Separately

  • 鈥淎n Apprenticeship to Brothers,鈥 Works in Progress: Number One.  New York: Literary Guild of America, 1970.
  • 鈥淭he Dick Gibson Show,鈥 Dutton Review, no. 1.  Ed. Hal Scharlatt, Robert Brown, and Jerome Charyn. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1970.
  • 鈥淭he Dodo Bird,鈥 The Iowa Review I (1970): 28-47.
  • 鈥淭he Memory Expert.鈥 Esquire (May 1970): 152-154, 175-180.
  • 鈥淏ernie Perk.鈥 Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Greatest Hits. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980.
  • 鈥淏ernie Perk.鈥   The Best of Modern Humor. Ed. Mordecai Richler.  New York: Knopf, 1983.

The Franchiser. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1976;  Boston: David R. Godine, 1980, foreword by William H. Gass;  New York: Thunder鈥檚 Mouth press;  Normal, IL:   Dalkey Archive, 2001, foreword by William H. Gass.

Published Separately

  • 鈥淭he Franchiser,鈥 Fiction 4 (1975): 32-35.
  • 鈥淭he Franchiser,鈥 Iowa Review 7 (1976): 108-126.
  • 鈥淢r. Softee.鈥  Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Greatest Hits.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1980.

George Mills. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982.  Dalkey Archive, 2003, foreword by Chris Lehman.

Published Separately

  • "The First George Mills."  Dallas: Pressworks, 1980.  Limited edition of part 1, illustrator Jane E. Hughes.
  • 鈥淭he First George Mills.鈥  Antaeus 40/41 (1981): 86-104.
  • 鈥淔rom George Mills: The Cassadaga Section.鈥 Tri-Quarterly 53 (1982): 63-102,
  • 鈥淭he Griefs.鈥 Perspective.  Dedicatory Issue (1982): 21-24.
  • 鈥淭he Telethon,鈥 Playboy Sep 1982: 102-103, 222.
  • 鈥淕eorge Mills.鈥  Playboy Nov 1092: 96-100, 186-91. 

The Magic Kingdom. New York: E. P. Duton, 1985, originally published as Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Magic Kingdom; New York: Dutton Obelisk, 1983; New York: Thunder鈥檚 Mouth Press;  Normal, IL:  Dalkey Archive, 2000, introduction by Rick Moody.

Published Separately

  • 鈥淯n In茅dit de Stanley Elkin.鈥  Delta, 20 (Feb 1985): 37-55.

The Rabbi of Lud. New York: Charles Scribner鈥檚 Sons, 1987.; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 2001.

Published Separately

  • 鈥淭he Rabbi of Lud.鈥 Chicago October 1986: 196-99, 229-30, 232.

Performed

  • 鈥淣otes Toward a Eulogy for Joan Cohen.鈥  Modern American Dance Company, Univ. of Missouri St. Louis.  Adapted and read by Elkin to accompany interpretative dance, 1987-1988 season.

The MacGuffin. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. Normal. IL: Dalkey Archive, 1999.

Published Separately

  • 鈥淭he MacGuffin,鈥 Playboy Dec 1990: 118-119, 160, 230-238, 240, 242-243.
  • 鈥淪ex: Real or Imagined.鈥 The Penguin Book of Infidelities. Edited by Stephen Brook. London: Viking, 1994: 227-31.

Mrs. Ted Bliss. New York: Hyperion, 1995. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 2002.

Published Separately

  • "From Mrs. Ted Bliss.鈥 In the House of Night: A Dream Reader. Edited by Christopher Navratil. San Francisc Chronicle Books 1997: 17-18.

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Collections of Novellas

Searches and Seizures. New York: Random House, 1973; Published as Eligible Men: London: Victor Gollancz, 1974; Boston: David R. Godine, 1973; Alex and the Gypsy: Three Short Novels: Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.  Thunder鈥檚 Mouth Press.

Published Separately

  • Alex and the Gypsy. New York: Pocket Books, 1976. A separate issue of 鈥淭he Bailbondsman鈥 issued in conjunction with the film.
  • 鈥淭he Condominium,鈥 Works in Progress Number Eight. New York: Literary Guild, 1973.
  • 鈥淭he Making of Ashenden.鈥 Tri-Quarterly 26 (1973): 42-103.
  • The Making of Ashenden. London: Covent Garden Press, 1972. Limited edition.
  • 鈥淭he Making of Ashenden.鈥 Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Greatest Hits.  New York: Dutton, 1980.

Film Adaptation

  • Alex and the Gypsy. Based on the novella 鈥淭he Bailbondsman鈥 by Stanley Elkin. 20th Century Fox Films, 1976. Director, John Korty; producer, Richard Shepherd;  screenplay, Lawrence B. Marcus; Music, Henry Mancini;  Principal Actors, Jack Lemmon, Genevieve Bujold, James Woods.

Stage Adaptation

  • 鈥淭he Making of Ashenden.鈥  Adaptation by Larry Sloane.  Performed at Remains Theater, Chicago, October 1990.  Director, Larry Sloane. Principal Actors, Bruce Norris and Martha Lavey.

The Living End. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979; New York: Warner Books, 1980; London: Cape, 1980; London: Virgin Books, 1981; New York: Dutton Obelisk, 1985; Normal. IL: Dalkey Archive, 2004, afterword by Curtis White.

Translations

  • Au Commencement 脡tait la Fin. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1981. Translator: Jean-Pierre Carasso.
  • Himmel und H枚lles: auch eine G枚ttleich Komodie.  Hamburg: Rowholt, 1981. Translator: Charlotte Franke.

Published Separately

  • 鈥淭he Conventional Wisdom.鈥 New American Review 26. Ed. Ted Solotaroff. New York: Bantam Books, 1977.
  • 鈥淭he Bottom Line.鈥 Antaeus 28 (1978): 7-30.
  • 鈥淭he Conventional Wisdom.鈥 The Best American Short Stories 1978. Ed. Ted Solotaroff and Shannon Ravenel. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1978.
  • 鈥淭he State of the Art.鈥 Tri-Quarterly 44 (1979): 230-259.
  • 鈥淭he Conventional Wisdom.鈥 Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories. Ed. Tobias Wolff. Green Harbor, MA: Wampeter, 1983.
  • 鈥淭he Conventional Wisdom.鈥 Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Greatest Hits.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1980.

Filmscript

  • Galati, Frank. Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Living End: An Adaptation for the Screen. New American Cinema, 1980.  Polish by Stanley Elkin.  Typescript, Olin Library, Washington University, St. Louis.

Van Gogh鈥檚 Room at Arles: Three Novellas. New York: Hyperion, 1993. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 2002.

Published Separately

  • 鈥淔rom 鈥淗er Sense of Timing.鈥 Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out. Ed. Kenny Fries. New York: Plume, 1997.
  • 鈥淗er Sense of Timing.鈥 TriQuarterly, 84 (Spring/Summer 1992): 162-245.
  • La Chambre de Van Gogh. Trans. Claire Maniez. Paris: Deno毛l, 1995
  • La Stanza di Van Gogh ad Arles. Trans Igor Legati.  Torin Einaudi, 1994. 鈥淚l Tempismo di Claire鈥 and 鈥淟a Stanza di Van Gogh ad Arles.鈥

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Collections of Stories

Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers. New York: Random House, 1966. London: Anthony Blond, 1967; New York: Berkley, 1968; New York: Warner Books, 1980; New York: Thunder鈥檚 Mouth, 1990, new introduction by Elkin; Normal, IL:  Dalkey Archive, 2000.

 

Published Separately

  • 鈥淚n the Alley.鈥 Chicago Review 13 (Winter 1959): 3-25.
  • 鈥淐ousin Poor Lesley and the Lousy People.鈥  Perspective 11 (Spring 1959): 12-30.
  • 鈥淎mong the Witnesses.鈥 Accent 19 (Autumn 1959): 179-200.
  • 鈥淐riers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers.鈥 Perspective 12 (Autumn-Winter 1961): 55-80.
  • 鈥淚 Look Out for Ed Wolfe.鈥  Esquire, September 1982: 112-117. 161-167.
  • 鈥淐riers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers.鈥  Best American Short Stories 1962.  Ed. Martha Foley and David Burnett.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1963.
  • 鈥淥n a Field, Rampant.鈥 Perspective 13 (Spring 1963): 67-100.
  • 鈥淧erlmutter at the East Pole.鈥  Saturday Evening Post 13 February 1959: 46-49, 52, 54, 56-58, 60, 62-63.
  • 鈥淎 Poetics for Bullies.鈥  Esquire April 1965: 66-68, 128, 132.
  • 鈥淭he Guest.鈥  Paris Review 34 (Spring-Summer 1965): 42-47.
  •  鈥淚 Look Out for Ed Wolfe.鈥  Contemporary American Short Stories. Ed. Douglas and Sylvia Angus. New York: Fawcett, 1967; Ballantine Books, 1983.
  • 鈥淥n a Field, Rampant.鈥 The Human Commitment: An Anthology of Short Fiction. Ed. Dan Gold.  Philadelphia: Chilton Book, 1967.
  • 鈥淐riers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers.鈥 Fiction as Process. Ed. Carl Hartman and Hazard Adams.  New York: Dodd Mead, 1967.
  • 鈥淚 Look Out for Ed Wolfe.鈥  How We Live: Contemporary Life in Contemporary Fiction.  Ed. Penny Chaplin Hills and L. Rust Hills. New York: MacMillan, 1968.
  • 鈥淐riers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers.鈥  My Name Aloud: Jewish Stories by Jewish Writers.  Ed. Harold Uriel Ribalow.  South Brunswick NJ: T. Yoselof, 1969.
  • 鈥淭he Guest.鈥 The Single Voice: An Anthology of Short Fiction. Ed. Jerome Charyn.  Londn: Collier, 1969.
  • 鈥淎 Poetics for Bullies.鈥 New Sounds in American Fiction. Ed, Gordon Lish.  Menlo Park, CA: Cummings Publishing, 1969.
  • 鈥淭he Guest.鈥 Love is the Theme. Ed. Douglas and Sylvia Angus.  Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1970.
  • 鈥淎 Poetics for Bullies.鈥  Collection: Literature for the Seventies.  Ed. Nancy Shingler Messner and Gerald Messner.  Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1972.
  • 鈥淎mong the Witnesses.鈥  Accent: An Anthology, 1940-1960. Ed. Daniel Curley, George Scoffas and Charles Shattuck.  Urbana: Univ, if Illinois Press, 1973.
  • 鈥淐riers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers.鈥  The Norton Introduction to Literature: Shorter Edition.  Ed. Carl Bain, Jerome Beaty, and J. Paul Hunter. New York: W.W. Norton, 1973.
  • 鈥淚 Look Out for Ed Wolfe.鈥  Writer鈥檚 Choice. Ed. L. Rust Hills.  New York: David MacKay, 2974. 
  • 鈥淎 Poetics for Bullies.鈥  The Challenge of Conflict..  Ed. Paul C. Holmes and Anita J. Lehman.  New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
  • 鈥淐riers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers.鈥  Jewish-American Stories.  Ed. Irving Howe.  New York: New American Library, 1977.
  •  鈥淭he Meaning of Life鈥 and 鈥淭ransitory Love鈥 [excerpts from 鈥淧erlmutter at the East Pole鈥漖. The Big Book of Jewish Humor.  Ed. William Novak and Moshe Waldoks.  New York: Harper and Row, 1981.
  • 鈥淭he Guest.鈥  The Arbor House Celebrity Book of the Greatest Stories Ever Told.  Ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Charles Waugh.  New York: Arbor House, 1983.
  • 鈥淚 Look Out for Ed Wolfe.鈥  Great Esquire Fiction: The Finest Stories from the First Fifty Years.  Ed. L. Rust Hills.  New York: Penguin, 1983.
  • 鈥淭he Guest.鈥  Paris Review Anthology. Ed. George Plimpton.  W.W. Norton, 1990.
  • 鈥淎 Poetics for Bullies.鈥 Introduction to the Short Story.  Ed. Robert W. Boynton and Maynard Mack.  NY: Heinemann, 1992.  4th edition.

Adaptations

  • April, Arnold.  鈥淐riers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers.鈥  Adapted for and performed by the Chicago Jewish Theater, Horwich Kaplan Jewish Community Center Skokie, IL, March-April 1989, director Arnold April.
  • Galati, Frank.  鈥淭he Guest.鈥  N.d. Adapted for and performed at Northwestern University, early 1970s. Director Frank Galati.  Typescript, Olin Library, Washington University.
  • Crowell, Mark.  鈥淭he Guest.鈥  Adapted for and performed by Chamber Theatre, Univ. of Illinois, dir. Mark Crowell.  Performed 1983. Typescript, Olin Library, Washington University.

Early Elkin. Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, 1985. 

  • 鈥淚ntroduction鈥 by Elkin, 1985.
  • 鈥淲here I Read What I Read.鈥  Antaeus 45/46 (1982): 56-65.
  • 鈥淎 Sound of Distant Thunder.鈥  Epoch 8 (Winter 1957): 39-57.
  • 鈥淭he Party.鈥  Views 4 (1957): 37-51.
  • 鈥淔ifty Dollars.鈥  Southwest Review 47 (1962): 41-60.
  • 鈥淭he Graduate Seminar.鈥  Fiction 1 (1972): 10-11.

Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Greatest Hits. Introduction by Robert Coover. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1980.

  • 鈥淭he Making of Ashenden.鈥  Searches and Seizures, 1973.
  • 鈥淔eldman and Son.鈥 A Bad Man, 1967.
  • 鈥淏ernie Perk.鈥  The Dick Gibson Show, 1971.
  • 鈥淭he Guest.鈥 Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers, 1966.
  • 鈥淭he Transient.鈥  Boswell, 1964.
  • 鈥淢r. Softee.鈥 The Franchiser, 1976.
  • 鈥淭he Conventional Wisdom.鈥 The Living End, 1979.

Uncollected Stories

  • 鈥淭he Dying.鈥 Illini Writers 4 (September 1950): 10-18.
  • 鈥淎lone is Hurt Too.鈥 Illini Writers 4 (Spring 1951): 11-19.
  • 鈥淐orporate Life.鈥 Chicago, March 1985: 156-159.
  • 鈥淕olf-ball Size Hail.鈥 Playboy (January 1994):134, 212, 250-262.
  • 鈥淏aseball Story.鈥 New England Review 27 (2006): 48-52.
  • 鈥淐olin Kelly鈥檚 Kids.鈥 New England Review 27 (2006): 53-56.

Unpublished Stories and Fragments of Novels

These stories are housed in the Elkin collections, Olin Library, Washington University, St. Louis.  Composition dates in brackets are conjectures;  those with no punctuation represent  dated typescripts or manuscripts.  A few are untitled, and I鈥檝e provided a descriptive title in brackets.

  • 鈥淭he Benders, Paula.鈥  Undated fragment of a possible story, 1 page handwritten [卤 1954].
  • 鈥淒angling.鈥  Undated ts, [卤 1955]
  • 鈥淭he Fall.鈥 Undated ts. [卤 1955]
  • 鈥淐hapter One鈥 of a projected novel, holograph title 鈥淭ic Tac Doe: Game of Make A Novel,鈥   plus one page planning sheet; undated 6 page ts.  [卤 1955].
  • 鈥淸Feldman Story]鈥 and 鈥渢reatment鈥 or plan for the story.  Undated 4 page ts, [卤  1954].
  • 鈥淭he Glass Continent.鈥  Undated ts, partial draft of an early novel. [卤 1956] Collection librarian鈥檚 date is 1952, but this appears not to be an undergraduate effort.  105 + xxiv pages.
  • 鈥淭he Last of the Go-To-Hell-God-Damnits.鈥 Undated ts, 39 pages. [卤 1955].
  • 鈥淭he Long Road back to Nineveh.鈥 Undated short story, ts., 21 pages [卤 1957].
  • 鈥淣ext year in Jerusalem.鈥 Undated short story ts. 13 pages. [卤 1956].
  • 鈥淭he Outlander.鈥  Undated novella, 43 pages [卤 1958]
  • 鈥淸Richard Story].鈥  Undated story fragment, 11 page ts [卤 1955].

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Collections of Essays

Pieces of Soap: Essays by Stanley Elkin. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. Introduction by Helen Vendler. Contains thirty previously-published essays and introductions:

  • 鈥淧erformance and Reality.鈥  Grand Street 2 (Summer 1983): 110-122.
  • 鈥淧濒辞迟.鈥 SubStance 27 (1980): 70-74.
  • 鈥淎cts of Scholarship.鈥  Chicago 36 (September 1987): 132-137, 168-173.
  • 鈥淭he Law of Average.鈥  Originally published as 鈥淗ow Average Are the Folks in 鈥楳iddletown, U.S.A.鈥?鈥  The Dial, March 1982.
  • 鈥淲hat鈥檚 in a Name? (The 1987 Elizabeth and Stewart Credence Memorial Lecture).鈥  Denver Quarterly, 21 (Spring 1987): 109-26.  Fiction masquerading as an essay.  Excerpted as 鈥淪tanley Elkin on Stanleyness,鈥 贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚 276 (May 1988): 36-37
  • 鈥淭he First Amendment as an Art Form.鈥  Originally published as 鈥淭alk UP!  The First Amendment as An Art Form,鈥 Grand Street 8 (Winter 1989): 94-107.
  • 鈥淭he Muses Are Heard.鈥  Originally published as 鈥淭he Muses Are Heard:  Dancing in the Heart of the Regional Arts.鈥 贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚 277 (December 1987): 94-107; The Best American Essays 1989. Ed. Geoffrey Wolff. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989.
  • 鈥淎n American in California.鈥  California, February 1990: 52-59,112-118 and 鈥淎n American in Northern California,鈥  March 1990: 56-63, 163.
  • 鈥淎t the Academy Awards.鈥  Originally published as 鈥淚n Darkest Hollywood: At the Academy Awards.鈥  贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚 (December1989): 51-61; The Best American Essays 1990. Ed. Justin Kaplan. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990.
  • 鈥淭he Rest of the Novel,鈥 originally 鈥淭he Future of the Novel: A View from the Eight-Seated Spaceship,鈥 New York Times Book Review 23 February 1991: BR11. An address to a conference, 鈥淭he Novel in the Next Century,鈥 Bellagio, Italy, 1990.
  • 鈥淧ieces of Soap.鈥  Art and Antiques, November 1990.
  • 鈥淎 Preface to the Sixties (But I am Getting Ahead of Myself),鈥 preface to Stories from the Sixties.  Ed. Elkin.  New York: Doubleday, 1971.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction to The Best American Short Stories 1980.鈥 The Best American Short Stories 1980.  Ed. Elkin and Shannon Ravenel. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1980.
  • 鈥淔oreword to Arthur Schnitzler, Plays and Stories.鈥 Arthur Schnitzler, Plays and Stories.  Ed. Egon Schwartz.  New York: Continuum Publishing, 1982.
  • 鈥淎 La Recherche du Whoopee Cushion,鈥 Esquire 82 (July 1974): 126-129.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction to Early Elkin.  Early Elkin, Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, 1986.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction to The Six-Year-Old Man.鈥 The Six-Year-Old Man. Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, 1987.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction to The Coffee Room. The Coffee Room. Louisville: Contre Coup, 1987.
  • 鈥淔oreword to Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers.鈥 Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers.  New York: Thunder鈥檚 Mouth, 1990.
  • 鈥淢y Father鈥檚 Life.鈥 Chicago 36 (June 1987): 159-60, 186-194.
  • 鈥淢y Middle Age.鈥  Originally 鈥淭he Withdrawal of Expectations,鈥 TWA Ambassador 14 (June 1981): 32-34; as 鈥淭urning Middle Aged,鈥 Washington University Magazine 54 (Spr 1984): 15-17.
  • 鈥淲hy I Live Where I Live.鈥 Esquire, November 1980: 108-109, 111.  Reprinted as Why I Live Where I Live.  University City, MO: Contre Coup Press, 1983.  Limited edition.
  • 鈥淎 Kinsey Report.鈥  Originally 鈥淎lfred Kinsey: The Patron Saint of Sex.鈥  Esquire 100 (December 1986): 48, 50, 53.55.  Reprinted in Fifty Who Made the Difference. New York: Villard Books, 1984.
  • 鈥淢y Shirt Tale.鈥  贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚, 278 (April 1989): 73-76.
  • 鈥淪ummer: A True Confession.鈥  Chicago (June 1986).
  • 鈥淭he Mild One.鈥  Esquire 105 (June 1986): 113.
  • 鈥淢y Tuxed A Meditation.鈥  Chicago (May 1985). Excerpted as 鈥淚n Praise of Tuxedos. 贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚 271 (November 1985): 32-35.
  • 鈥淭hree Meetings.鈥  TriQuarterly 17 (Winter 1970, special Nabokov edition): 261-265.  Reprinted, Tri-Quarterly 63 (Winter 1985): 155-159; Nabokov: Criticism, reminiscences, translations and tributes.  Ed. Alfred Appel and Charles Newman.  Evanston: Northwestern Univ Press, 1970; and The Best of TriQuarterly.  Ed. Jonathan Brent.  New York: Washington Square Press, 1982.
  • 鈥淪ome Overrated Masterpieces.鈥  Art and Antiques Summer 1991:52-61. Reprinted as 鈥淎bout This Mona Lisa.鈥 The Wilson Quarterly, 15 (Autumn 1991): 133; The Best American Essays 1992. Edited by Susan Sontag. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992; 鈥淪ome Overrated Masterpieces.鈥 Literature: Reading and Responding to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay. Ed. Joel Wingard. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

Uncollected Essays:

  • 鈥淢iss Taylor and Family: An Outside View,鈥 Esquire 62 (1964): 118-120, 43,44,46.
  • 鈥淎 Prayer for Losers.鈥  Ed Gordon Lish.  California: Behavioral research Laboratories, 1966.
  • 鈥淭he World on $5 a Day: The Saga of Arthur Frommer, First of the Small-Time Spenders.鈥 贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚 245 (July 1972): 41-46.
  • 鈥淚nside Jean-Louis Trintignant,鈥 Oui 2 (January 1973):  84-86,166.168-69,172-74.
  • 鈥淩epresentation and Performance,鈥 Representation and Performance in Postmodern Literature,鈥 ed. Maurice Couturier.  Montpelier: Delta, 1983: 181-191.  Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Postmodern Fiction, Nice.
  • 鈥淭he Contemporary Literature Speech in France.鈥  Revue Fran莽aise d鈥櫭﹖udes Am茅ricaines 27/28 (February 1986): 157-162.
  • 鈥淛oe McElroy: Introduction.鈥 Review of Contemporary Fiction 10 (Spring 1990): 7-8.
  •  鈥淎merican Fiction and its Reach.鈥  Harpers 284 (March 1992):  34-35.
  • 鈥淥n Jerry Charyn.鈥  Review of Contemporary Fiction 12 (Spring 1992): 124.
  • 鈥淥ut of One鈥檚 Tree:  My Bout with Temporary Insanity.鈥  贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚 286 (January 1993): 69-77.
  • 鈥淲ords and Music.鈥 Review of Contemporary Fiction 15 (Summer 1995): 27-37.

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Plays

  • 鈥淎 Cup for God,鈥  unpublished verse drama, June 1954.  Elkin Collection, Olin Library, Washington University.
  • 鈥淭he Six-Year Old Man: A Screenplay,鈥 Esquire 70 (December 1968): 142-145, 226, 228, 232-233, 236-237, 240, 246-247, 251-253.  Full text, The Six-Year Old Man. Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, 1987.
  • The Coffee Room.  Louisville: Contre Coup, 1987.
  • 鈥淭he Saturday 蓝莓视频,鈥 Colorado Review 20 (Fall 1993): 4-28.

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Filmscripts

  • The Art of War.  146-page filmscript prepared and revised under contract for Michael Ritchie and Columbia Pictures, 1973.  Never filmed, Olin Library.
  • Mudshow.139-page filmscript prepared and lightly revised under contract with Michael Ritchie and Paramount Pictures, 1977.  Never filmed, Olin Library.
  • The Demon Seed. Paramount Pictures, 1977.  Dir. Donald Cammell.  Producer Herb Jaffe.  At Jaffe鈥檚 request, Elkin revised the dialogue for the computer-character Proteus, but after a contract squabble, Elkin鈥檚 revisions were eliminated from the final film.  Elkin鈥檚 revisions, Olin Library.

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Reviews by Elkin

  • Review, 鈥淧orgy and Bess.鈥 Coffee, undated clipping in Olin Library.
    Review, 鈥淭he Immoral Mr. Teas.鈥  Coffee, undated clipping in Olin Library.
    Review, 鈥淭he Magician.鈥 Coffee, undated clipping in Olin Library.
    Review, The Wide World of John Steinbeck (Peter Luca).  Journal of English and Germanic Philology 58 (Jan 1959): 153-157.
  • Review, Quest for Failure: A Study of William Faulkner (Walter J. Slatoff). Journal of English and Germanic Philology 60 (April 1961): 349-52.
  • 鈥淎 Survey of the Fields of Camp鈥 (The Art of W. C. Fields by William K. Everson). Book World 24 December 1967: 4-5.
  • Review, The Fixer (Bernard Malamud). Massachusetts Review 8 (Spring 1967): 388-392.
  • 鈥淚n the New Land of Oz.鈥  Review, Travel notes (From Here- To There) (Stanley Crawford). 
    New York Times Book Review 21 April 1968: 50-51.
  • 鈥淭revor鈥檚 Sleight of Hand鈥 (William Trevor, Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories).  Book World 2 August 1986: 1, 12.

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Special Editions Dedicated to Elkin and his Work

  • Delta 20 (February 1985).
  • 鈥淪tanley Elkin and William H. Gass: A Special Feature,鈥 Iowa Review 7 (1975).
  • Review of Contemporary Fiction.  15 (Summer 1995).
  • 鈥淪tanley Elkin Revisited.鈥 New England Review 27 (2006): 36-70.

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Interviews

 

Personal Interviews

Many people were generous with their time and memories of this extraordinary man.  I want to take this opportunity to thank each one of them, for many of the anecdotes in Shouting Down the Silence originate in their stories.

  • Anderson, Jean.  Writer.  E-mail and telephone, February 2006.
  • Avedon, Micki.  Childhood friend.  Letter and telephone, January 2006.
  • Bailey, Peter.  Scholar, Critic.  Letters and e-mails, 2004-2008
  • Ballowe, James,  Fellow student, life-long friend.  In person, October 2007 and e-mails..
  • Borchardt, Georges and Anne.  Literary agents.  In person, May 2007, and by telephone and e-mail.
  • Brandwein, Diane. Sister.   In person, May 2002 and by letter.
  • Buell, Uncle Ruthie.  Childhood friend.  Telephone, January 2006.
  • Charyn, Jerome.  Novelist, friend.  Telephone, July 2007.
  • Coover, Robert and Pilar.  Novelist, friends.  In person November 2006 and subsequent e-mails.
  • Cuoco, Lorin.  Colleague, NPR interviewer.  In person, June 2002,
  • Demarest, David.  Colleague, friend.  Telephone, February 2006.
  • Elkin, Bernard.  Son.  In person, June 2002.
  • Elkin, Joan.  Spouse, care-giver and muse.  In person June and September 2002;  August 2004;  August 2005; and many letters and telephone conversations.
  • Elkin, Molly.  Daughter. In person, December 2002 and several e-mails.
  • Elkin, Philip.  Son. In person, June 2002.
  • Fields, Wayne.  Colleague.  In person, June 2002.
  • Galati, Frank,  Screenwriter and director.  In person, June 2002.
  • Gass, William H.  Writer, colleague, close friend.  In person, September 2002 and August 2006 and subsequent e-mails.
  • Gold, Charles.  Colleague, long-term friend.  Telephone, Sep 2007 and June 2008, letters and e-mails.
  • Gottfried, Leon.  Colleague.  Telephone, April 2008.
  • Grammer, John.  Sewanee colleague.  In person October 2007 and subsequent e-mails.
  • Guggenheim, Janis.  Widow of childhood friend.  In person, May 2002.
  • Jacobson, Marshall.  Brother-in-law.  In person June 2002.
  • Kipniss, Robert. Artist, Army buddy.  In person, November 2006.
  • Lebowitz, Al and Naomi.  Lawyer, colleague, and close friends.   In person June 2002 and subsequent  e-mails.
  • McGraw, Erin.  Writer, former workshop student.  In person, March 2006 and October 2007.
  • Milofsky, David.  Writer, editor.  Telephone, November 2007.
  • Mohrlein, John.  Actor, theater producer.  Telephone, December 2007.
  • Monaghan, Patricia. Writer, academic.  Telephone, January 2006.
  • Novak, Robert.  Journalist, college friend.  In person, March 2006.
  • Pepe, George.  Colleague, neighbor, close friend.  In person, June 2002 and August 2005.
  • Pope, Nancy.  Student, Colleague.  In person August 2005 and e-mail.
  • Prunty, Wyatt.  Poet, Conference Director. Telephone September 2007; in person October 2007.
  • Robins, Lee.  Colleague, 鈥淭hird Tuesday,鈥 widow of Eli R.  Telephone, September 2007.
  • Shea, Dan.  Colleague, close friend.  In person June 2002 and August 2005, subsequent e-mails.
  • Siegel, Ben  (鈥淏ud鈥). Childhood friend.  Telephone, March 2006, and subsequent e-mails.
  • Snider, Yash. High school acquaintance.  Telephone, January 2003.
  • Spacks, Barry.  Poet, cousin.  Telephone and e-mail, November 2002.
  • Thurston, Jarvis (1914-5 Feb 2008).  Poet, editor, department chair.  By telephone, September 2002.
  • Teitelbaum, Marilyn and Steve.  Colleagues, friends, 鈥淭hird Tuesday.鈥 In person June 2002 and subsequent e-mails.
  • Vendler, Helen.  Critic, friend.  In person, July 2006.
  • Wagner, Raymond.  Film producer.  Telephone, March 2006.
  • Waters. Pat.  Writer, academic.  Telephone, July 2007.
  • Wilkins, Damien.  Writer, former student.  Telephone March 2006 and subsequent e-mails.
  • Wolitzer, Hilma.  Writer.  Telephone, July 2007.

Published Interviews

  • 鈥淎n Interview with Stanley Elkin.鈥 AWP Newsletter. February/March 1988: 10-11.
  • Bailey, Peter J.  鈥溾橝 Hat Where There Never Was a Hat鈥: Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Fifteenth Interview.鈥  Review of Contemporary Fiction 15 (1995): 15-26. 
  • Bargen, Doris G.  鈥淎ppendix: An Interview with Stanley Elkin.鈥  The Fiction of Stanley Elkin.  Frankfurt: Peter D. Lang, 1980.
  • Bernt, Phylis and Joseph. 鈥淪tanley Elkin on Fiction: An Interview.鈥  Prairie Schooner 50 (1975): 22. 
  • Chenetier, Marc.  鈥淎n Interview with Stanley Elkin.鈥  Delta 10 (1985):14-35.
  • Cuoco, Lorin, 鈥淜MWU  Presents Stanley Elkin.鈥  National Public Radio, St Louis, MO, two broadcasts, 1985 and 1986.
  • Duncan, Jeffrey. 鈥淎 Conversation with Stanley Elkin and William H. Gass.鈥 Iowa Review 7 (1976): 62-63.
  • Dougherty, David C. 鈥淎 Conversation with Stanley Elkin,鈥 Literary Review 34 (1991):  182-195.  Reprinted in Sylvia Skaggs McTague, ed, The Muse Upon My Shoulder: Interviews with Contemporary Authors (Teaneck: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005).
  • Earlywine, Robert.  鈥淎n Interview with Stanley Elkin.鈥  Webster Review 8 (1983)鈥 5-16.
  • Gass, William H.  鈥淎dventures in the Writing Life.鈥 Washington Post Book World 12 (10 October 1982): 10-12.
  • LeClair, Tom.  鈥淪tanley Elkin: The Art of Fiction LXI.鈥 Paris Review 17 (Summer 1976):  70.  Reprinted in LeClair and Larry McCaffrey, Anything Can Happen鈥 Interviews with Contemporary Novelists.  Urbana. IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1983.
  • Plummer, William.  An Interview with Stanley Elkin.鈥  Bookletter 2 (1975): 13
  • Renwick, Joyce.  鈥淪tanley Elkin an Interview.鈥 Mid-American Review 5 (1985): 61-67.
  • Sale, Richard.  鈥淎n Interview with Stanley Elkin in St. Louis.鈥  Studies in the Novel 16 (1984): 314-25.
  • Sanders, Scott.  鈥淎n Interview with Stanley Elkin,鈥 Contemporary Literature 16 (1975):  131-145.
  • Swaim, Don.  Radio Interview on The Magic Kingdom.  16 Apr 1985.
  • _______.  Radio Interview on The Magic Kingdom and The Rabbi of Lud, 12 Nov 1987.
  • ________.  Radio Interview on  The MacGuffin. 20 Nov 1991.
  • Winner, D. Washington University Student Life (17 February 1971).

Newspaper and Magazine Stories Summarizing Interviews

  • Berkley, Miriam.  鈥淧W Interviews Stanley Elkin.鈥  Publisher鈥檚 Weekly 29 March 1985: 74-75. Also published in Chicago Sun-Times Book Week 31 March 1985: 26.
  • Burnside, Gordon.  鈥淭he Funniest Writer.鈥  St. Louis  (May 1983); 128.
  • Cricklaw, Don.  鈥淭he Low-Down Comedy of Stanley Elkin.鈥 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 28 November 1972.
  • Emerson, Ken.  鈥淭he Indecorous, Rabelaisian, Convoluted Righteousness of Stanley Elkin.鈥 New York Times Magazine 3 March 1991.
  • Farrell, Michael J. 鈥淪tanley Elkin: Writing to the rhythm of the heart鈥檚 oom-pa-pa,鈥 The Catholic Reporter, 9 May 1986.
  • Freitag, Michael. 鈥淭he Trouble with Facts.鈥  8 November 1987.  Clipping in Olin Library.
  • Futterman, Ellen , 鈥淔ull-Tile Elkin,鈥 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 14 April 1991.
  • Hahn, Roger, 鈥淭he Sweet and Sour heart of Stanley Elkin.鈥  The Weekly 8-14 March 1985.
  • Hanscom, Leslie.  鈥淗ow to Get Your Name Above the Title.鈥  Newsday 1 March 1981.
  • Keith, Bob,  Untitled.  Daily Iowan 3 April 1974.
  • Marx, Bill, 鈥淕uru of Gab.鈥  Boston Globe 10 Apr 1992.
  • Rice, Patricia.  鈥淎fter Death: 鈥楾he Living End.鈥欌  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 18 July 1977.
  • Sayad, Elizabeth Gentry.  鈥淟iving with the Arts.鈥  West End World (November 1973).
  • Shamberg, Michael. 鈥淥h, Boy, Is Stanley Elkin Smart!鈥  Chicago Daily News 18 November 1967.
  • Strasbaugh, John . 鈥淓lkin Magic.鈥 Baltimore City Paper 12 May 1989, 26-28.
  • Winner, D.  Washington University Student Life (1971)
  • Woo, William F., 鈥淚nward Look at an Emerging Writer.鈥  St Louis Post-Dispatch (undated [1965] copy in Elkin archive)
  • WWAH radio (St. Louis) 25 May 1976.

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Biography and Criticism

Biography and Tribute Pieces

  • Bates, Stanley.  New England Review 27 (2006): 64.
  • Baxter, Charles.  New England Review 27 (2006): 68-70.
  • Charyn, Jerome.  鈥淥n Stanley Elkin.鈥 Review of Contemporary Fiction 15 (Summer 1995): 42-43.
  • Cohen, Robert.  New England Review 27 (2006): 65-66.
  • Coover, Robert.  New England Review 27: 2006: 60-62.
  • Gass, William H, 鈥淪tanley Elkin: An Anecdote,鈥 Washington University Magazine (Spring 1984):  Repr, Review of Contemporary Fiction 15 (Summer 1995): 38-41.
  • _____.  New England Review 27 (2006): 65.
  • Irving, John.  New England Review 27 (2006): 59.
  • Kramer, Kathryn.  New England Review 27 (2006): 63.
  • Krieger, Leonard. 鈥淩emembering Elkin,鈥 Forward 3 Nov 1995.
  • Pack, Robert.  New England Review 27 (2006): 62.
  • Wilkins, Damien.  New England Review 27 (2006): 66-68.
  • Vendler, Helen.  New England Review 27 (2006).57-59.
  • Wolff, Geoffrey.  鈥淩emembering Stanley Elkin: Master of Excess.鈥  New York Times Book Review 100 (17 Sep 1995: 43.

Books about Elkin

  • Bailey, Peter J.  Reading Stanley Elkin. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1985.
  • Bargen, Doris.  The Fiction of Stanley Elkin.  Frankfurt: Lang, 1980.
  • Dougherty, David C.  Stanley Elkin.  Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991.

Books Containing Chapters or Substantial Treatments of Elkin

  • Bain, David Howard. Whose Woods These Are: A History of the Bread Loaf Writer鈥檚 Conference 1926-1992.  Hopewell, New York: Ecco Press, 1993.
  • Bargen, Doris.  鈥淪tanley Elkin.鈥 Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 2: American Novelists Since World War II.  Ed. Jeffrey Helterman and Richard Layman.   Detroit: Gale/Bruccoli, 1974: 131-136.
  • _______.   鈥淪tanley Elkin.鈥  Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 28: Twentieth-Century Jewish-American Writers.  Ed. David Walden.  Detroit: Gale/Bruccoli, 1984: 47-50.
  • _______.  鈥淪tanley Elkin.鈥  Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1980.  Ed. Karen Wood, Jean D. Ross, Richard Ziegfield.  Detroit: Gale/Bruccoli, 1981: 36-40.
  • Charyn, Jerome.  鈥淥n Stanley Elkin.鈥 Review of Contemporary Fiction XV (Summer 1995). 42-43.
  • Connaughton, Michael.  鈥淪tanley Elkin.鈥  Critical Survey of Long Fiction.  Ed. Frank Magill.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Salem Press, 1983: Volume 8, 884-893.
  • Dittmar, Kurt.  鈥淪tanley Elkin: 鈥業 Look Out for Ed Wolfe.鈥欌  Die Amerikanische Short Story der gegenwart: Interpretation.  Ed. Peter Freese.  Berlin: Schmidt, 1975.
  • Dougherty, David C. 鈥淓lkin, Stanley.鈥  Literary Encyclopedia, ed. Robert Clarke.  www.litencyc.com, 2003.
  • _______.  鈥淪tanley Elkin.鈥 Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives Vol 4 (1994-1996).  New York: Charles Scriber鈥檚 Sons, 2001: 148-49.
  • _________.鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Novels,鈥 Dictionary of Literary Biography 278: American Novelists Since World War II.  Ed. James Giles and Wanda Giles.  Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003: 112-125.
  • _______.鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Short Stories.鈥  Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Short Story Writers Since World War II.  Eds. Patrick Meanor and Gwen Davis.  Detroit.  Bruccoli-Clark, 1998:  135-45.
  • _________. "Stanley Elkin."  Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, Vol 12. Ed. Kirk F. Beetz.  Osprey, FL: Beacham Publishing, 1996.
  • ______.  鈥淓lkin, Stanley Lawrence.鈥 The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives.  Volume 4, 1994-1996.  Eds. Karen Markoe and Arnold Markoe.  New York: Charles Scribner鈥檚 Sons, 2001: 148-150.
  • Guttman, Allen.  鈥淭he Black Humorists.鈥 The Jewish Writer in America: Assimilation and the Crisis of Identity.  New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1971.
  • Lebowitz, 鈥淭he Twentieth-Century Novel: New Wine in Old Bottles,鈥  Humanism and the Absurd in the Modern Novel.  Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1979: 125-128.
  • Morace, Robert.  鈥淕eorge Mills.鈥  Magill鈥檚 Literary Annual 1983. Ed. Frank Magill.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983:  Vol. 1, 273-277. 
  • Olderman, Raymond.  鈥淭he Fisher King Turns Warden.鈥 Beyond the Waste Land: A Study of American Fiction in the Nineteen-Sixties.  New haven: Yale University Press, 1966: 52-71.
  • Sadkin, David.  鈥淪tanley Elkin.鈥  Critical Survey of Short Fiction.  Ed. Frank Magill.  Englewood Cliffs: Salem press, 1981:  Vol. 4, 1338-1343.
  • Watts, Emily Snipes.  鈥淭he Businessman as Hero.鈥  The Businessman in American Literature.  Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1982: 137-143.
  • Wilkins, Damien.  鈥淥pening the Bag.鈥  Mutes and Earthquakes. Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press, 1997: 66-71.
  • Wilde, Alan.  鈥淎 Map of Hypersensitivity: Irony in the Postmodern Age.鈥  Horzons of Assent: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Ironic Imagination.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1981: 127-165.

Critical Essays about Elkin

  • Abrioux, Yves.  鈥淎nimal et 锚tre parlant: 鈥楾he Making of Ashenden.鈥欌 Delta 20 (Feb 1985): 149-80.
  • Bailey, Peter J.  鈥溾淚 Think I Know Most of My Readers by Name鈥: Dick Gibson, Stanley Elkin, and the Issue of Audience.鈥 A Casbook on Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Dick Gibson Show.  Ed. David C. Dougherty.  Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive on-line press, 2003. www.dalkeyarchive.com/casebooks/introduction_dickgibson
  • ______.  M.S. as Metaphor.  Delta 20 (Feb 1985): 57-71.
  • _______.  鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Tales of Last Resorts.鈥  Mid-American Review 5 (1985): 73-80.
  • Bargen, Doris.  鈥淭he Orphan Adopted: Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Franchiser.鈥    Studies in American Jewish Literature 2 (1982): 132-143.
  • Ch茅netier, Marc.  鈥淥rganisme, organicisme et ecriture dans Searches and Seizures.鈥  Delta 20 (Feb 1985): 181-206.
  • Christensen, Peter J. 鈥淎 New View of Dick Gibson鈥檚 Apprenticeship.鈥 A Casbook on Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Dick Gibson Show.  Ed. David C. Dougherty.  Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive on-line press, 2003. www.dalkeyarchive.com/casebooks/introduction_dickgibson
  • _____.  鈥淭he Escape from the Curse of History in Stanley Elkin鈥檚 George Mills.鈥  Review of Contemporary Fiction XV (Summer 1995): 79-91.
  • Colbert, Robert Edward.  鈥淭he American Salesman as Pitchman and Poet in the Fiction of Stanley Elkin.鈥  Critique 21 (1978): 52-58.
  • Couturier, Maurice.  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 George Mills: or, How to Make an Ectoplasm Schmooze.鈥 Delta 20 (February 1985): 73-91.
  • Danon-Boileau, Laurent.  鈥淒eclinasion du non.鈥  Delta 20 (February 1985): 111-126. 
  • Ditmar, Kurt.  鈥淪tanley Elkin, 鈥楲 Look Out for Ed Wolfe.鈥欌  Die amerikanmsche Short Story der Gegenwart.  Ed. Peter Freese.  Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1976: 252-261.  In German.
  • Ditsky, John.  鈥淒eath as Grotesque as Life: The Fiction of Stanley Elkin.鈥  Hollins Critic 19 (June 1982): 1-11.
  • Dougherty, David. 鈥溾楤ecause Everything Has a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation.鈥 Our Ticket to Elkin鈥檚 Magic Kingdom.鈥  A Casebook on Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Magic Kingdom.  Ed.  Dougherty,  Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive on-line press, 2005. www.dalkeyarchive.com/casebooks/magic_kingdom
  • _______. 鈥淟istening in on America: Static and The Dick Gibson Show.鈥 A Casbook on Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Dick Gibson Show.  Ed. Dougherty.  Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive on-line press, 2003. www.dalkeyarchive.com/casebooks/introduction_dickgibson
  • _______.  鈥淣emeses and Macguffins: Paranoia as Focal Metaphor in Stanley Elkin, Joseph Heller, and Thomas Pynchon.鈥 Review of Contemporary Fiction XV (Summer 1995): 70-78.
  • _________.  鈥淧rospects of Recovery:  Two Unpublished Sketches by Stanley Elkin.鈥  New England Review 27 (2006): 41-46.
  • Edinger, Harry G. 鈥淏ears in Three Contemporary Fictions.鈥  Humanities Association Review 28 (1976): 141-150.
  • Gass, William H.  鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 The Franchiser.鈥  New Republic 28 (June 1980): 29-32.  Reprinted as the foreword to the Godine and Dalkey Archive editions of The Franchiser. 
  • _______.  鈥淪tanley Elkin: An Anecdote.鈥  Washington University Magazine  Spring 1984: 12-14, reprinted  Review of Contemporary Fiction XV (Summer 1995):38-41.
  • Hardaway, 鈥淭he Power of the Guest: Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Fiction.鈥  Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 32 (1977): 234-245.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome.  鈥淓lkin Before Elkin.鈥  Review of Contemporary Fiction XV (Summer 1995): 44-47.
  •  LeClair, Thomas.  鈥淭he Obsessional Fiction of Stanley Elkin.鈥  Contemporary Literature 16 (1974): 146-162.
  • Lee, L. L.  鈥淭he Anonymous American as Historian: Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Boswell.鈥  Critique 26 (1985): 185-191.
  • McCaffrey, Larry.  鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Recovery of the Ordinary.鈥 Critique 21 (1978): 39-51.
  • Molesworth, Charles.  鈥淪tanley Elkin and 鈥楨verything鈥: The Problem of Surfaces and Fullness in  the Novels.鈥  Delta 20 (February 1985): 93-100.  Reprinted, Review of Contemporary Fiction XV (Summer 1995):.48-60.
  • Morace, Robert. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Magic Carnival.鈥 A Casebook on Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Magic Kingdom.  Ed. David C. Dougherty,  Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive on-line press, 2005. www.dalkeyarchive.com/casebooks/magic_kingdom
  • Myers, D. G. 鈥淭he Two Voices of The Dick Gibson Show: Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Jewish Question.鈥 A Casbook on Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Dick Gibson Show.  Ed. David C. Dougherty.  Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive on-line press, 2003. www.dalkeyarchive.com/casebooks/introduction_dickgibson
  • O鈥橠onnell, Patrick.  鈥淥f Red Herrings and Loose Ends:  Reading 鈥楶olitics鈥 in Elkin鈥檚 the MacGuffin.鈥  Review of Contemporary Fiction XV (Summer 1995): 92-100.
  • Olderman, Raymond.  鈥淭he Six Crises of Dick Gibson.鈥  Iowa Review 7 (1975): 127-140.
  • Raff. Melvin.  鈥淲yndham Lewis and Stanley Elkin: Salvation, Satire and Hell.鈥  Studies in Contemporary  Satire 8 (Spring 1981): 1-8.
  • Sammarcelli, Fran莽oise.  鈥淐omparison et interiorit茅 dans Searches and Seizures de Stanley Elkin.鈥  Delta 20 (Feb 1985): 127-147.
  • Saltzman, Arthur M.  鈥淓go and Appetite in Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Fiction.鈥  Literary Review 32 (1988): 111-118.  A later version appeared as 鈥淪tanley Elkin: An Introduction鈥 in Review of Contemporary Fiction  XV (Summer 1995): 7-14.
  • ________. 鈥淟iving on the Air: The Dick Gibson Show鈥檚 Greatest Hits.鈥  A Casbook on Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Dick Gibson Show.  Ed. David C. Dougherty.  Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive on-line press, 2003. www.dalkeyarchive.com/casebooks/introduction_dickgibson
  • Shapiro, Michael J.  鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 鈥楳agic Kingdom鈥 and the Politics of Death.鈥  International Political Science Review 12 (Apr 1991): 149-163.
  • Tristman, Richard.  鈥淭ragic Soliloquy, Stand-up Spiel.鈥  New England Review 27 (2006): 36-40.
  • Wells, Kellie. 鈥淭he 鈥榮kirls and screaks鈥 of 鈥榯he deserving dead,鈥 Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Death-Defying Maximalism.鈥 A Casebook on Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Magic Kingdom.  Ed. David C. Dougherty,  Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive on-line press, 2005. www.dalkeyarchive.com/casebooks/magic_kingdom
  • Wilde, Alan.  鈥淔inal Things: More Letters to mzimmer%humanitas@hub.ucsb.edu.鈥  Review of Contemporary Fiction XV (Summer 1995): 61-69.  An 鈥渆arlier installment鈥 appeared as 鈥淭he Once and Future Novel: Letters to iwp1muri@ucsbuxta.bitnet.鈥 ANQ 5 (Pct 1992): 252-257.
  • Wilman, Skip. 鈥淢isrecognition and the Gaze in Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Magic Kingdom.鈥 A Casebook on Stanley Elkin鈥檚 The Magic Kingdom.  Ed. David C. Dougherty,  Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive on-line press, 2005. www.dalkeyarchive.com/casebooks/magic_kingdom

Reviews of Elkin鈥檚 Work

Boswell: A Modern Comedy (1964).

  • Ciardi, John.  鈥淩ealism and Fantasy.鈥 Saturday Review 15 Aug ust1964: 6.
  • Crane, Milton.  Books Today. 
  • Kirkus Reviews 15 May 1964: 500.
  • Klein, Marcus. 鈥淔iction North and South.鈥 The Kenyon Review, 26 (Autumn 1964): 759-63
  • Levin, Martin.  The New York Times Book Review 12 July 1964: 28.
  • Levitas, Gloria.  鈥淏uchenwald, Buchenwald 鈥︹ Washington Post Book World 29 October 1967: 16.
  • Maurer, Robert. 鈥淪haggy Doggerel鈥 New York Herald Tribune.  21 June 1964: 16.
  • McGloin, Joseph T.  Extension, September 1964: 11.
  • Poore, Charles. 鈥淎 Novel About a Wild Young Man in a Hurry; BOSWELL: A Modern Comedy. By Stanley Elkin.鈥 New York Times  7 July 1964: 33.
  • 鈥淪ponging in Style.鈥 Times Literary Supplement 22 October 1964: 953.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review 40 (Autumn 1964): cxiv.

Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers (1966).

  • Bates, Helen. 鈥淥ne Out of Nine,鈥 6 February 1966, clipping in Elkin Archives.
  • Bellman, Samuel I. 鈥淣owhere to Go and No One to Know.鈥 Saturday Review 49 (15 January 1966): 41.
  • _______.鈥淓lkin鈥檚 Declaration of Woe.鈥 Los Angeles Times Calendar 16 January 1966.
  • Berkow, Ira. 鈥淭he Grocer鈥檚 Trouble:  He Was Human.鈥 Minneapolis Tribune 27 March 1966.
  • Borenstein, A. Farrell.  鈥淐ontagious Magic.鈥  North American Review 3 (March 1966): 35.
  • Brady, Charles A. 鈥3 Works Illustrate the Constant Crisis of Classic Fiction Forms.鈥  Buffalo Evening News 15 January 1966.
  • Brinckner, Richard P. 鈥淏orn Losers.鈥 NY Times Book Review 23 January 1966.
  • Choice 3 (October 1966): 636.
  • Crane, Kendall. 鈥淎bstract Talent.鈥 Pittsburgh Press 27 February 1966.
  • Deutsch, Linda. 鈥淪hort Stories Show Little but Varied Style.鈥 Asbury Park Evening Press 17 January1966.
  • Eberle, Ann. Untitled.  Chattanooga Daily Times 13 February 1966.
  • Galloway, David.  鈥淰isions of Life in Recent Fiction.鈥  Southern Review 4 (1968): 859-60.
  • Goodman, Ellen. 鈥淎 Spicy People Collection.鈥 Detroit Free Press 23 January 1966.
  • Goodspeed, John .鈥淎nother Superior Book of Stories.鈥 Baltimore Sun 6 February 1966.
  • Grumbach, Doris. 鈥淔ine Print.鈥 New Republic 170 (23 March 1974): 32.  [Reviewing the Plume reprint].
  • Grutzmacher, Harold M. 鈥淭hree Works of Craftsmanship.鈥 Chicago Tribune 30 January 1966.
  • Guttmann, Allen. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Orphans.鈥 Massachusetts Review 7 (1966): 597-600, 315-17.
  • Kitching, Jesse. 鈥淔iction,鈥 Publisher鈥檚 Weekly 15 November 1965.
  • Knickerbocker, Conrad. 鈥淪hort Stories of a Pair of Young Masters鈥 Life  50 (14 January 1966): 8. 10.
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. 鈥淪obering up,鈥 New York Times 3 January 1966.
  • Lewis, Peggy. 鈥淧ersonal Agonies Become Universal.鈥  Trenton Daily Trentonian 15 January 1966.
  • Murray, James G. 鈥淓xperimenting to Answer a Challenge.鈥  Long Island Catholic 20 January 1966.
  • Murdick, Marvin.  鈥淓velyn, Get the Horseradish.鈥  Hudson Review 19 (Summer 1966): 315-317.
  • L. P.  鈥淭heir Signal Grace is Humility.鈥  Christian Science Monitor 58 (12 May 1966): 11.
  • Quigley, Martha. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Delight:  Irresponsible Characters.鈥  St. Louis Globe-Democrat 22 January 1966.
  • K.R. 鈥淭oday鈥檚 Book Review.鈥 New Haven Register 9 February 1966.
  • Rosofsky, H. L. Library Journal 91 (15 January 1966): 276.
  • M.S. 鈥淚n His Short Stories, Elkin Hits Funny Bone 鈥 and Heart.鈥  National Observer 10 January 1966.
  • Scully, Malcolm. 鈥淐omic Treatment of the Commonplace.鈥 Charlotte Observer 6 February 1966
  • Sheppard, R. Z. 鈥淲ailing.鈥 Book Week 3 (6 February 1966): 14.
  • Smith, Miles A. 鈥淭ragedy Reflected in a Funhouse Mirror.鈥 Pomona (CA) Progress-Bulletin 22 February 1966.
  • Sullivan, Mary.  鈥淔lavours.鈥 Listener 79 (28 March 1968): 415.
  • Taylor, David. 鈥淎 World of Cripples.鈥 Louisville Courier-Journal 13 February 1966.
  • Thompson, John. 鈥淔rom Out of Nowhere,鈥 New York Review of Books 6 (3 March 1966): 12
  • Uns. Booklist 62 (15 February1966): 566.
  • Uns. Choice 3 (October 1966): 636.
  • Uns.  鈥淚n Short Stories, Elkin Hits the Funny Bone  -- and Heart.鈥 National Observer 5 (19 January 1966): 27.
  • Uns. Kirkus Reviews, 33 (1 November 1965): 1131.
  • Uns.  Publisher鈥檚 Weekly 193 (11 March 1968): 51.
  • Woo, William. 鈥淟osers Have Their Innings In Elkin Stories.鈥 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, clipping in Elkin Archive.

A Bad Man (1967).

  • Bellman, Samuel I.  鈥淭he Good & the Bad.鈥  Congress bi-Weekly 11 March 1968.
  • Bergonzi, Bernard. 鈥淐atch-31.鈥 The New York Review 18 January 1968.
  • Bitker, Marjorie M. 鈥淭he Sins of Feldman.鈥 Milwaukee Journal 22 October 1967.
  • Cavinder, Fred D. 鈥溾橞ad Man鈥 Has Bad Time with the Law.鈥  Indianapolis Star 12 November 1967.
  • Cabau, Jacques.  鈥淯n Goulag am茅ricain.鈥 尝鈥椭虫辫谤别蝉蝉, 1977.  Review of Un Sale Type, translator Jean-Pierre Carasso (Paris, 1977).
  • Firestone, Bea. 鈥淭oo Many Words Spoil the Book.鈥 Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, nd 1967.
  • Fowles, Jib.  鈥淟obby Comedy,鈥 The New Leader 4 December 1967.
  • Greenfield, Josh.  鈥淭he World of Leo Feldman.鈥 New York Times Book Review 15 October 1967.
  • Haas, Joseph. 鈥淭he Unsentimental tale of a born loser.鈥  Chicago Daily News 18 November 1967.
  • Hamilton, Philip.  鈥淪E鈥檚 A Bad Man.鈥  MLA Quarterly 29 (September 1968): 237-238.
  • Jaffe, Dan. 鈥淭he Bad Man鈥檚 Self Comes First.鈥  Kansas City Star 5 November 1967.
  • Keneggy, Richard.  鈥淔ine Phrases.鈥 Books and Bookmen May 1968.
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. 鈥淜illing for Fun and Games.鈥 Books of the Times, New York Times 7 October 1967.
  • Le Voit, Andre.  鈥淟ibraire du Mois.鈥  Espirit 6 (June 1978): 141.
  • Malin, Irving.  Commonweal 8 December 1967.
  • Merzer, Meridee. 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 鈥楢 Bad Man鈥 is Brilliant.鈥 Student Life [Washington University] 17 November 1967.
  • O鈥機onnell, Shaun. 鈥淏ad Man in the Real World.鈥  The Nation 27 November 1967.
  • Potter, Nancy A. 鈥淐omedy with a Moral.鈥 St. Louis Post Dispatch 15 October 1967.
  • Powers,  Ed.  鈥淏lack Humor Fails to Go Far Enough.鈥 Cleveland Press 6 October 1967.
  • Quigley, Martin. 鈥淔ighting the World 鈥楧ay at a Time.鈥  St. Louis Globe Democrat, n.d.
  • Ribalow, Harold U. 鈥淥n Doing Favors,鈥 Jewish Exponent, n.d.
  • Schott, Webster, 鈥淎 Comic Outburst on the Nature of Evil.鈥 Life Magazine 27 October 1967.
  • Sheppard, R. Z. 鈥淟eo the Louse Tells Where the Money Is.鈥 Washington Post Book World 22 October1967.
  • Shrapnel, Norman.  鈥淭hree Letter Words.鈥 Manchester Guardian Weekly 11 April 1968.
  • Standen, Gary. 鈥淪t. Louisan鈥檚 New Book a Critical Success.鈥  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 24 November 1967.
  • Stern, Daniel. 鈥淐osmic Put-On.鈥 Saturday Review 18 November 1967.
  • Sullivan, Mary.  鈥淔lavors.鈥 The Listener 28 March 1968.
  • Sullivan, Walter.  鈥溾橶here Have All the Flowers Gone?鈥 Part II: The Novel in the Gnostic Twilight.鈥  Sewanee Review 78 (Autumn 1970): 654-664.
  • Thompson, Eugenia. 鈥淔unniest Sad Man Cherishes His Sins.鈥 Cleveland Plain Dealer 12 November 1967.
  • Tuttleton, J. W. 鈥淪ystem of Stanly Elkin鈥檚 Hell.鈥 Daily Cardinal (Univ Wisconsin) 27 October 1967.
  • Williams, David.  鈥淣ew Novels.鈥 Punch 27 (March 1968): 472.
  • ________.  鈥淎nnual Report and Distribution of Prizes.鈥 Punch 1 January 1969.
  • Yardley, Jonathan. 鈥淎bout Books.鈥  Greensboro Daily News 17 November 1967.
  • 鈥淵ou Believe Three?鈥  Nashville Tennessean 19 November 1967.
  • Uns,, The American News, October Books, October 1967.
  • Uns. Bookist 15 December 1967.
  • Uns.  鈥淏riefly noted.鈥  New Yorker 24 February 1968.
  • Uns.  Choice April 1968.
  • Uns. Kirkus Reviews 1 August 1967.
  • Uns.  Time 27 October 1967.
  • Uns.  Virginia Quarterly Review 44 (Spring 1968): lvi.
  • Weigel, John M. 鈥溾橞lack Humor鈥 Novel Shows Author鈥檚 Talent.鈥  Cincinnati Enquirer 11 November 1967.
  • Zaiman, Mildred. 鈥淥nly Skin Deep.鈥  Courant Magazine 31December 1967.

The Dick Gibson Show (1971).

  • Avant, J[ohn]. A. Library Journal 96 (1 June 1971): 2008.
  • Barrett, Mary Ellin.  鈥淐osmo Reads the New Books.鈥  Cosmopolitan 22 March 1971: 10.
  • Bell,  Pearl K. 鈥淪logging through a Sahara. 鈥New Leader 54 (5 April 1971): 17-18.
  • Butler, Robert W.  鈥淢issouri Writer Capitalizes on Love of Radio Shows.鈥  Kansas City Times 4 March 1970.
  • 鈥淔antastic Displacements.鈥  The Times Literary Supplement 27 August 1971:  1018.
  • Garmel, Marlon S.  鈥淪ounds of Silence.鈥  National Observer 22 March 1971: 21.
  • Lehman-Haupt, Christopher.  鈥淟isten to this One, Folks!鈥  The New York Times, 27 February 1971.   D37.
  • McElroy, Joseph.  鈥淥ur Radio Classic?鈥  New York Times Book Review,  27 February 1971, 6-7.
  • Midwood, Barton.  Esquire April 1971:  30, 32.
  • Pritchard, William H. 鈥淪tranger than Truth.鈥 Hudson Review 24 (Summer 1971): 359.
  • Sheppard,  R. Z. 鈥淒on鈥檛 Touch that Dial!鈥   Time 97 (1 March 1971): 82.
  • Theroux, Paul, 鈥淣either Dirt Nor Art.鈥  Washington Post Book World 7 March 1971: 2.
  • Uns. American Libraries  2 (September 1971):  897.
  • Uns.  Kirkus Reviews 15 December 1970.
  • Uns. Publisher鈥檚 Weekly 198 (14 December 1970): 33.
  • Wolff, Geoffrey.  鈥淎 Roundup of Recent Fiction.鈥  Newsweek 77 (19 April 1971):  118b, 120.

Reviews of Theatrical Adaptations of The Dick Gibson Show

  • Elliott, David.  鈥淭he Dick Gibson Show:  Something Completely Different.鈥  Chicago Sun-Times 29 October 1979 (鈥淣ovel Ventures鈥 production).
  • Quinlan, J. E.  鈥淎n Unfunny Neil Simon, a Real Gem from Frank Galati.鈥  Near North News 3 November 1979 (鈥淣ovel Ventures鈥 production).

Searches and Seizures (1973).

  • Allen, Bruce.  鈥淔iction Chronicle.鈥 Hudson Review 27 (Spring 1974): 119-132.
  • Avant, John A.  Library Journal 15 November 1973: 3391-3392.
  • C.A.B. 鈥淲orld Problems Solved, Elkin鈥檚 Verbal Comedy鈥 Buffalo Evening News 15 December 1973.
  • Barth, Joseph.  The Reprint Bulletin Book Reviews 24 (1979): 20.
  • Baxter, Tom. 鈥淓lkin: master of Comic Energy.鈥  News and Courier [Charleston SC] 18 November 1973.
  • Bawden, Nina. 鈥淩ecent Fiction.鈥 London Daily-telegraph 11 July 1974.
  • Bellman, Samuel I. Studies in Short Fiction 11 (Fall 1974): 438-439.
  • Bloom, Ian. 鈥淪ome Black Humor鈥 Jewish Chronicle 29 November 1974.
  • Clapp, Samantha.  鈥淭he Lists of Lust.鈥  Times Literary Supplement 13 December 1974: 1405.
  • Cogan, Marc. 鈥淭he banal explodes into the exotic and magnificently funny.鈥 Book Week 14 October 1973.
  • Corwin, Philip. 鈥淥ne for three.鈥 National Observer 17 November 1973: 25.
  • Davis, L. J. 鈥淪earches and Seizures.鈥 Washington Post Book World 28 October 1973: 10-11.
  • DeWan, George. 鈥淗e lets the Quips Fall.鈥 Garden City [NJ] Newsday 28 October 1973.
  • Edwards, Thomas R. 鈥淔unny & moving assaults on the reader鈥檚 habits, sense and manners.鈥  New York Times Book Review  21 October 1973: 3.
  • Edelman, Lily. 鈥淭he Seeing Eye: Three Writers and Their Tales of Home.鈥  The National Jewish Monthly June 1974: 46-49.
  • Grumbach, Doris.  鈥淔ine Print: New Nectar.鈥 Saturday Review 3 February 1979: 42-43.
  • Harrington, John. 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 S&S: Seductively Styled Novellas.鈥 Columbia Daily Spectator 21 November 1973.
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher.  鈥淎 Gag & Two Ominous Words.鈥 New York Times 9 October 1973: 45.
  • Leonard, John.  鈥1973: An Apology and 38 Consolations.鈥 New York Times Review of Books 2 December 1973: 2.
  • McKinley, James. 鈥淎 Horror That鈥檚 Inherent in Comedy.鈥 Kansas City Star 6 January 1974.
  • Monk, Wendy. 鈥淣ew Fiction鈥 Birmingham Post 30 November 1974.
  • Olderman, Raymond M.  鈥淭he Politics of Vitality: On SE.鈥  fiction international 2/3 (1974): 140-144.
  • Olson, Clarence E. 鈥淭he Passionate Gargoyles鈥 St. Louis Post-Dispatch. n.d.
  • Pace, Eric.  New York Times 17 March 1973.
  • Plummer, William.  鈥淪earches and Seizures.鈥 New Republic 23 June 1979: 33-35.
  • Raban, Jonathan.  鈥淭aking Possession 鈥 New Fiction.鈥 Encounter February 1975: 80-84.
  • Rovit, Earl.  鈥淪ome Shapes in Recent American Fiction.鈥 Contemporary Literature 15 (Autumn 1974):  547-548.
  • Seymour-Smith, Martin. 鈥淪he-bear at large鈥 Financial Times 7 November 1974.
  • Sigal, Clancy. Satire as Prop.鈥 New Republic 24 November 1973: 31.
  • Somers, Dermot. 鈥淔rom America to Anglo-Ireland鈥 Irish Times [n.d.]
  • Suplee, Curt. Minnesota Daily 19 November 1973.
  • Uns.  Book World 28 October 1973: 10.
  • Uns.  Choice March 1974: 87.
  • Uns.  Kirkus Reviews 41 (15 August 1973): 904.
  • Uns.  鈥淣otable.鈥 Time 102 (20 October 1973): 122, 124.
  • Uns.  Playboy 20 (November 1973): 44, 46.
  • Uns.  Publishers Weekly  204 (13 August 1973): 45, 48.
  • Wood, Michael. 鈥淔lirting with Disintegration.鈥  New York Review of Books 21 March 1974: 19-22.

Reviews of Alex and the Gypsy, Film Adaptation of 鈥淭he Bailbondsman鈥

  • Ebert, Roger.  Chicago Sun-Times November 1976.
  • Kael, Pauline.  The New Yorker 18 October 1986: 77-78.
  • Thingvall, Joel. 鈥淢ovies,鈥 Mpls. January 1977: 52.

Reviews of The Making of Ashenden, adapted for the stage by Larry Sloane

  • Collins, Scott, 鈥淎uthor Stanley Elkin鈥檚 work has special appeal here,鈥 Southtown Economist 11 October 1990.
  • Home at Last,鈥 Chicago Tribune 30 September 1990.
  • Weiss,Hedy. 鈥淩emains鈥 new digs are just right, but play misses mark鈥 Chicago Tribune 8 October 1990

The Franchiser (1976).

  • Allen, Bruce.  鈥淔iction:  the outrageous talents of Stanley Elkin.鈥  Chicago Tribune Books World 13 June 1976.
  • Biggar, John. 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 Journey Into America鈥檚 Prefab Heart,鈥 Columbia Daily Spectator 28 October 1976.
  • Barkham, John.  鈥淪harp-Toothed Satire.鈥  Toledo Blade 20 June 1976.
  • Bready, James.  鈥淚n a World of Malls and Motels.鈥  Milwaukee Journal 20 June 1976.
  • Cain, Michael Scott.  鈥淩ich in character, thin in story.鈥 Baltimore Sun 13 June 1976.
  • Chabot, Barry.  鈥淧ackaging American Dreams.鈥 Washington Post 13 June 1976: M3.
  • Edlin, Mari.  St. Louis Jewish Light. 15 September 1976.
  • Elliott, George P.  鈥淔iction and Anti-fiction.鈥 American Scholar 47 (Summer 1978): 398-406.
  • Firestone, Bruce.  Library Journal  101 (July 1976): 1555.
  • Gass, William H.  鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 The Franchiser.鈥  New Republic 28 (June 1980): 29-32.  Also the Foreword to the Godine and Dalkey editions.
  • Gidding, Josh.  鈥淭he Business of America,鈥 San Francisco Review of Books [n.d.]: 7-9.
  • Gold, Ivan.  鈥淓lkin a many-talented writer, but glitter seems to fade.鈥  Boston Sunday Globe. 25 July 1976: A15.
  • Granetz, Marc. 鈥淔ranchised Fiction.鈥 Harvard Independent 30 September 1976.
  • Heilbut, Anthony, 鈥淒rug Addicts and Cultural Illiterates.鈥  The Nation 28 August 1976: 151-152.
  • Koenig, Rhoda.  鈥淐heap Reads.鈥 New York 7 (July 1980): 79.
  • LeClair, Tom.  鈥淭he Franchiser by Stanley Elkin.鈥 New Republic 174 (12 June 1976): 27.
  • _____. 鈥淏ooks to Borrow, Books to Keep.鈥  Cincinnati Enquirer n.d,
  •  Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher.  鈥淏ooks of the Times.鈥 New York Times 21 May 1976: C23.
  • Leonard, John.  鈥淒reams on Credit.鈥  Saturday Review 29 May 1976: 33-4.
  • Levine, Martin. 鈥淯nearthing Individuality,鈥 Newsday 16 June 1976.
  • Lewis, Stuart.  鈥淣ew Novel is Moving and Funniest of the Year.鈥 Kansas City Jewish Chronicle 24 September 1976.
  • Milder, Phyllis. Best Sellers 36 (October 1976): 211-212.
  • Miller, Alicia Metcalf.  鈥淎mericana, 1976, served on a bun.鈥  Cleveland Plain Dealer 20 June 1976.
  • Miller, Nolan.  Antioch Review 34 (Summer 1976): 506.
  • Morris, Joe Alex.  鈥淎merica Under microscope is funny, boring.鈥 Hartford Times 11 July 1976.
  • Murray, G.E. fiction international 6-7 (1976): 153-153.
  • Norris, Hoke.  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 fictional Franchising.鈥 Chicago Daily News (Panorama) 29-30 May 1976.
  • Olson. Clarence E. 鈥淎merica the Homogenized鈥  St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  30 May 1976: 4B.
  • Quigley, Martin.  鈥淲ill of flesh and Franchise.鈥  St. Louis Globe-Democrat 19-20 June 19 1976.
  • Ross, James.  鈥淭he American Zombie Portrayed.鈥  Greenboro Daily News 13 June 1976.
  • Sheppard, R. Z. 鈥淎 Poet of Profit and Loss.鈥  Time 24 May 1976: 88.  Excerpted as 鈥淭he Critics Are Saying,鈥 New York Post 5 June 1976: 33
  • Towers, Robert.  鈥淭he Franshiser.鈥  New York Times Book Review 13 June 1976: 5, 22, 24.
  • Ullman, Leslie.  鈥淗ere鈥檚 to the Ordinary 鈥 With Virtuosity.鈥  Kansas City Star 20 June 1976.
  • Uns. 鈥淎 Memorable Man Emerges.鈥  Baltimore News-American 4 July 1976.
  • Uns. Booklist 1 July 1976: 1510.
  • Uns. Cultural Information Service.  September 1976: 18-19.
  • Uns. Erie Times-News (PA) 25 July 1976
  • Uns.  鈥淔ranchiser is unusual.鈥  Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette 13 June 1976.
  • Uns. Kirkus Reviews 44 (15 March 1976): 341.
  • Uns. Literature-Criticism September 1976.
  • Uns. National Observer  15 (12 June 1976): 21.
    Uns. 鈥淣otes on Current Books,鈥 Virginia Quarterly Fall 1976:  134
  • Uns. Publisher鈥檚 Weekly 209 (19 April 1976): 78.
  • Uns. 鈥淩eviewers Choices: Top Books of the Year.鈥  Cleveland Plain-Dealer 5 December 1976.
  • Uns. 鈥淩eviews in Brief,鈥 Chicago Sun-Times 20 June 1976.
  • Uns.  Virginia Quarterly Review 52 (Autumn 1976): 134.
  • Weigel, John A.  鈥淭alking, Traveling, Caring for the Losers.鈥  Cincinnati Enquirer 20 June 1976.
  • Wood, Michael, 鈥淭he Wild Blue Yonder,鈥 New York Review of Books 5 August 1976: 36.
  • Wolff, Geoffrey.  鈥淭opping the Tank.鈥  New Times, 25 June 1976: 70.

The Living End (1979).

  • Allen, Bruce.  鈥淒iscovering the comic pleasures of death.鈥  Chicago Tribune 8 July 1979.
  • Anderson, Elliott.  鈥淒oomsday Comedy.鈥 Chicago Sun-Times 17 June 1979.
  • Anissimov.  鈥淒鈥檜n auteur L鈥橝utre.鈥  Le Nouvel Observateur 21 May 1981.
  • Attix, Evelyn,  Spiritual Studies Center August 1979.
  • Bailey, Paul.  鈥淭he quick and the dead.鈥 Times Literary Supplement 18 January 1980: 54,
  • Bailey, Peter.  鈥淪tanley Elkin 鈥淭he Living End鈥.鈥 fiction international (1980): 274-276.
  • Barton, Rick.  The Cresset December 1979: 30.
  • Baxter,. Tom. 鈥淕od Is Fun, Expansive In His Heavenly Trade.鈥  The Atlanta Constitution 29 July 1979.
  • Bawdin, Nina.  鈥淩ecent Fiction.鈥 Daily Telegraph, n.d.
  • B.H.H., 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 outrageous fun with afterlife.鈥  Anniston Star 17 June 1979.
  • Brown, Robert.  鈥淢usic, When Soft Voices Die.鈥 New York 18 June 1979: 70-71.
  • Burke, Jeffrey,  鈥淭he Mischief of Fiction.鈥  贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚 July 1979: 78-81.  
  • Caldwell, Peggy.  鈥淲ise Guy in Paradise.鈥 Louisville Times 7 July 1979.
  • Carideo, Anthony P.  鈥淒ante for Today.鈥 Milwaukee Journal 22 June 1979.
  • Clark, Jeff.  Library Journal 1 May 1979: 1076.
  • Crawley, Phillip.  鈥淲hite House Mole Run.鈥 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Journal January 1980.
  • Des Pres, Terrence.  鈥淭o Hell and Back with Stanley Elkin.鈥 Washington Post Book World 1 July 1979: F1, 4.
  • Dretzka, Gary, 鈥淎 Novel that devilishly hams it up at 鈥淭he Living End鈥濃  Los Angeles Herald-Examiner 10 June 1979.
  • Domermuth, Miriam.  鈥淎 Comedic Look into Living and Dying.鈥 Charlotte [NC] Observer 1 July 1979.
  • Dunlap, 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 Cult of Outrage.鈥 Seattle Times 2 September 1979. 
  • Edlin, Mari.  鈥溾橪iving End鈥 Author Stanley Elkin Refuses to be Labeled.鈥  St. Louis Jewish Light 1 August 1979: 7.
  • Eyrich, Clare.  鈥淭he Living End.鈥  Fort Worth Star Telegram 15 July 1979.
  • Frakes, James R.  鈥淕od visits Hell: 鈥楬i, hot enough for you?鈥欌  Cleveland Plain Dealer 8 July 1979.
  • Gass, William H.   鈥淭he Infinite鈥檚 jest: Stanley Elkin imagines the after life.鈥  贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚, May 2004: 92-96, 98.
  • Geisheker, Mary R.  鈥淗ell, in living color.鈥  Baltimore Evening Sun 8 July 1979.
  • G茅ni猫s, 鈥淟鈥櫭﹖range enfer de Stanley Elkin.鈥 Le Monde 3 April 1981.
  • Gingher, Robert.  鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 helluva tale.鈥  Greensboro Daily News 12 August 1979.
  • Goodwin, Michael.  鈥淭he Living End.鈥  The Tennessean 1 July 1979.
  • Graham, Mark.  鈥淣ovel Light, Enjoyable.鈥 Rocky Mountain News  5 August 1979.
  • Grumbach, Doris.  鈥淎 Season Redolent of Worthy Fiction.鈥  25 June 1979: R12-13.
  • Harris, Daisy.  鈥溾橪iving End鈥:  God explains in funny book.鈥 Dayton Daily News 8 August 1979.
  • Heller, Richard.  鈥淗ell in Minneapolis?鈥 The Citizen Register [Ossining NY] 24 July 1979.
  • Hill, Reginald.  鈥淗eavenly Novels.鈥 Books and Bookmen March 1980: 21-22,
  • Hogan, William.  鈥淟ife After Life.鈥  San Francisco Chronicle 13 July 1979.
  • Houston, Levin.  鈥淥ffensive novel.鈥  Fredericksburg [VA] Free-lance-Star 18 August 1979.
  • Howland, John, Jr.  鈥溾淭he Living End鈥: a Tryptch by Stanley Elkin.鈥  Vermont Free Press 1 July 1979.
  • Irving, John.  鈥淎n Expos茅 of Heaven and Hell.鈥  New York Times Book Review 10 June 1979: 7, 30.
  • Kennedy, Joseph Patrick.  鈥淓lkin: to hell on a technicality.鈥 Houston Chronicle 19 August 1979.
  • Kermode, Frank.  鈥淟ove and Do As You Please.鈥 New York Review of Books 16 August 1979: 44-45.
  • Kissel, 鈥淭he Living End.鈥 Women鈥檚 Wear Daily 24 May 1979.
  • Klien, Woody.  鈥淗is novels sweat and burn, they virtually reek of humanity.鈥 Bennington[VT] Banner 11 August 1979.
  • LeClair, Tom.  鈥淭he Living End.鈥 Saturday Review 13 October 1979: 75.
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher.  鈥淏ooks of the Times.鈥  New York Times 25 May1979: 247-248.
  • Levine, Martin.  鈥淎 Fantasy Set in Heaven, Hell, and Minneapolis.鈥 Newsday 10 June 1976.
  • Levy, Michael M.  鈥淭he Living End.鈥 Minnesota Daily 6 August 1979.
  • MacNamee, Max.  鈥淎 Pure Delight.鈥  The Hartford Courant 24 June 1979.
  • MacVicar, Bill.  鈥淯pdated Dante in Minneapolis.鈥  Macleans 20 August 1979: 38.
  • Maguire, John. 鈥淓lkin takes readers on tour of the afterlife.鈥  Springfield [MA] Sunday Republican 22 July 1979: 18.
  • Manning, Margaret.  鈥淎 Stanley Elkin novel that is both weird and lifeless.鈥 Boston Globe 7 June 1979.
  • Marcus, Greil.  鈥淪an Francisco鈥檚 Days of Rage.鈥 Rolling Stone 12 July 1979: 50.
  • Massie, Alan,  鈥淪plendid Hokum.鈥 The Scotsman 19 January 1980.
  • McKinley, Maryann U.  鈥淎 鈥榮piffy鈥 God in man鈥檚 (distorted) image.鈥  National Catholic Reporter 23 May 1980: 13.
  • Middleton, Harry, 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 Hell: 鈥楾he Ultimate Inner City.鈥欌  Figaro 10 October 1979.
  • Milazzo, Lee, 鈥淪tanley Elkin on life, death and the afterlife.鈥 Dallas Morning News 8 July 1979.
  • Miner, Tom.  鈥淗eaven and Hell Are Very Much Like Minneapolis-St. Paul.鈥  The Sacramento Bee 17 July 1979.
  • Morrow, Sara.  鈥溾橠oomsday鈥 Gets Light Touch in Elkin鈥檚 Imaginative Work,鈥 Nashville Banner 14 July 1979.
  • Murray, G.E., 鈥淭he Living End.鈥  Chicago Magazine September 1979: 114, 116, 118. 
  • Naughton, John.  鈥淥utrageous.鈥 The Listener [UK] 14 February 1980: 222.
  • Nesbitt, W. J.  鈥淓nclosed Order.鈥 Darlington Northern Echo. [U.K.] 18 January 1980.
  • Olson, Clarence E.  鈥淗oly Ghost Writer.鈥  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3 June 1979.
  • Pieiller, Evelyne.  鈥淧arfaitement Sournois et D茅concertant.鈥  La Quinzaine Litt茅raire 15 March 1981: 6-7.
  • Plummer, William.  鈥淭he Living End and Searches and Seizures by Stanley Elkin.鈥  New Republic 23 June1979: 33-35.
  • Prescott, Peter S.  鈥淏ooks.鈥 Newsweek 8 June 1979: 83-84.
  • Quigly, Isabel.  鈥淧ecula鈥檚 Peculations鈥 [reviewed with Toni Morrison鈥檚  The Bluest Eye] Financial Times [London] 26 Jan 1980. 
  • Robinson, Malcolm.  鈥淗ighlights from heaven.鈥 Rutgers Daily 11 October 1979.
  • Rossiter, Kieth. 鈥 鈥楪o to hell,鈥, says St. Peter.鈥 Oxford Mail 2 February 1980.
  • Rothschild, Sylvia.  鈥淩eviews and Reflections,鈥 Boston Jewish Advocate 16 August 1979.
  • Sabatini, Arthur J.  鈥淒elirium in three layers.鈥  Philadelphia Inquirer 8 July 1979.
  • Sheppard, R. Z.  鈥淟ife after Afterlife.鈥  Time 4 June 1979: 74, 76.
  • Shoemaker, Steven.  鈥淎 Comedy of Heaven and Hell.鈥 The New Review of Books and Religion IV (November 1979): 6.
  • Simon, Jeff.  鈥淎n Irascible Stanley Elkin Views Earth, Heaven, Hell.鈥 Buffalo Evening News 8 July 1979. 
  • Stokes, Geoffrey, 鈥淪hort Circuits.鈥 Village Voice 20 August 1979: 82.
  • Strahan, Don.  鈥淎 6-o鈥檆lock news look at heaven and hell.鈥 Los Angeles Times Book Review 15 July 1979. 
  • Stronach, Margaret.  鈥淕od, man, and Stanley Elkin.鈥  The Literary Review 17 April 1980.
  • Sykes, Geraldine.  鈥淏ook Reviews,鈥 Huddersfield Examiner  n.d.
  • Uns. 鈥滲riefly noted,鈥  The New Yorker, n.d.
  • Uns.  Booklist 1 July 1979: 1569.
  • Uns. 鈥淕od, the Artist.鈥 Cultural Information Service 30 August 1979.
  • Uns. 鈥淗eaven and Hell.鈥 Midlands Business Journal 6 July 1979.
  • Uns. Kirkus Reviews 15 April 1979: 465.
  • Uns.  The New Yorker 25 June 1979: 105.
  • Uns.  Publisher鈥檚 Weekly 30 April 1979: 109.
  • Uns. 鈥淎 review of 鈥淭he Living End鈥.鈥 Subject to Change 24 October 1979.
  • Von Blon, Joanne.  鈥淭win Cities 鈥榯ourists鈥 travel to Heaven & Hell.鈥 Minneapolis Tribune 8 July 1979.
  • Wadsworth, Christopher.  鈥淐haos with Unicorns.鈥 Manchester Guardian 14 February 1982.
  • Weir, Alison.  鈥淗ot and high pursuit of public faces.鈥  Glasgow Herald 24 January 1980. 
  • White, Terrence de Vere.  鈥淎 Merry Soul.鈥  The Irish Times 2 February 1980.
  • Wolff, Geoffrey.  鈥淗eaven and Superhell: Elkin鈥檚 Vision of the Afterlife.鈥 Esquire 19 June 1979: 13-14.  

Stanley Elkin鈥檚 Greatest Hits (1980).

  • Bromley, Robin.  鈥淏ook Briefs.鈥 Saturday Review, November 1980: 72.
  • Corddry, Tom.  [Seattle] The Weekly Reader.  10 December 1980.
  • Gray, Paul.  鈥淭wo Serious Comic Writers  [ also A Philip Roth Reader].鈥  Time 10 November 1980.
  • Hardy, Quentin R.  鈥淎n introduction to the wonderful, implausible world of Stanley Elkin.鈥  The Seattle Times 22 February 1981.
  • Harris, Robert R.  鈥淎 Master of Comedy Hits Again.鈥  Washington Star 28 December 1980.
  • Higgins, Fitzgerald.  鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Greatest Hits鈥 Grand Rapids [MI] Press 8 February 1981.
  • Hooper, William Bradley.  Booklist 1 November 1980.
  • Kaplan, Sam,  鈥淔ine madness from Stanley Elkin.鈥 Los Angeles Times. 14 February 1980.
  • Kellythorne, Walther.  鈥淢apping Absurd.鈥 Victoria Daily Colonist.  7 February 1981.
  • Milazzo, Lee.  鈥淲itty, not-so-witty fiction from Charyn, Kotzwinkle, Elkin.鈥 Dallas Morning News 16 November 1980.
  • Moore, Paul.  鈥淎 tall-teller deserving of a wider audience.鈥 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  1 February 1981.
  • Pinsker, Saul.  鈥淧ower of Language.鈥 Reconstructionist June 1981.
  • Sebak, Richard.  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 Collection Makes Reader Think and Laugh.鈥 The State [Columbia, SC], 28 December 1980.
  • Uns. Publisher鈥檚 Weekly 31 October 1980.
  • Uns. Virginia Quarterly Review 57 (Summer 1981): 103.
  • Zelas, Kent.  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 Divine Comedy.鈥 LA Herald Examiner. 14 December 1980.

George Mills (1982).

  • Ardizzone, Tony. 鈥淭he world according to Stanley Elkin.鈥  Norfolk (VA) Pilot-Ledger Star 12 December 1982.
  • J.B. 鈥淕eorge Mills鈥檚 function: To Observe and Survive.鈥 Youngstown (OH) Vindicator  28 November 1982.
  • Bandler,  Michael J. 鈥淏ooks.鈥 The American Way December 1982 [American Airlines].
  • Barnum, John. 鈥淥f Books and Authors.鈥  John Barnum Reviews [n.d.].
  • Baxter, Tom. 鈥淟aughter, tears for the second class.鈥  Atlanta Journal and Constitution 14 November 1982.
  • Cawley, Joseph A.  Best Sellers. December 1982: 332.
  • Clark, Jeff. Library Journal 1 September 1982: 1675.
  • Connaroe, Joel. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 St. Louis Everyman,鈥 Washington Post Book World 10 October 1982.  Reprinted, International Herald-Tribune 21 October 1982: 1,11.
  • Cryer, Dan. 鈥淗omage to the Little Guy: 1,000 Years of Blue Collars.鈥 Newsday 31 October 1982.  Reprinted as 鈥淓lkin: a Proust of the 鈥榣ittle guy.鈥欌 Des Moines Register 14 November 1982.
  • Epstein, Lesley. 鈥淕enerations of Horrible Fun.鈥 New York Times Book Review 31 October 1982: 11, 30-31.
  • Erickson, Steve. Elkin is a tour guide of the mind.鈥 Los Angeles Herald Examiner 2 January 1983.
  • Frakes, James R. 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 Gallows Humor.鈥 Cleveland Plain Dealer 2 January 1983.
  • Garchik, Leah. 鈥淎n Enslaved Everyman鈥 San Francisco Chronicle 23 January 1983.
  • Gold, Charles. Elkin鈥檚 Comic Humanity.鈥  Chicago Sun-Times [n.d.]
  • Hall, Barbara Hodge. 鈥溾淭he Blue Collar Curse is theme of Elkin novel.鈥 Anniston Star 23 Nov 1982.
  • Harris, Mark. 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 amusing fantasy sold as a classic before its time.鈥 Chicago Tribune Bookworld 10 October 1982.
  • Hartman, David E. 鈥淎n unbroken chain of blue collars.鈥  St. Petersburg Times 14 November 1982.
  • Hooper, William Bradley. Booklist July 1982: 1393.
  • James, Caryn. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Deli Delight.鈥 Village Voice 26 October 1982: 52.
  • Jones, Martha E.  Kliatt Paperback Guide January 1984: 8.
  • Kennedy, Joseph Patrick. 鈥淓lkin: the human spirit, hoping to complete that long distance call鈥 Houston Chronicle.  31 October 1982.
  • LeClair, Thomas.  Untitled.  New Republic. 27 December 1982: 32-38.
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. 鈥淏ooks of the Times.鈥 New York Times 20 October 1982: 25.
  • Lutz, Fred. 鈥淎 Blue_Collar Destiny is Repeated.鈥 Toledo Blade 9 January 1983.
  • Marshall, Leslie. 鈥淓ver Hear of Elkin? You Will Now.鈥  USA Today 10 December 1982.
  • McCaffrey, Larry. 鈥溾滿ills鈥 is an Elkinsian delight.鈥 San Diego Union 21 August 1983.
  • Milazzo, Lee. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 new novel gives us humor with heart.鈥 Dallas Morning News 7 November 1982.
  • Milovsky, David. 鈥淭he Fiction of Powerlessness.鈥 Prairie Schooner Summer 1983: 97-100.
  • Murray, G.E.  Chicago  December 1982: 134-136.
  • Olson, Clarence. 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 Rich Saga OF Blue-Collar Blood.鈥 Saint Louis Post-Dispatch 26 Sept 1982.
  • Owens, Brad. 鈥淗istory鈥檚 Straight Man.鈥 The Christian Science Monitor 9 February 1983: 15.
  • Pinsker, Sanford.  Southern Humanities Review 17 (Summer 1983): 276-278.
  • Plummer, William. 鈥淎 Fall Harvest of Fiction鈥 Newsweek 25 October 1982: 117-118.
  • Popkin-Paine, Linda. 鈥淧utting yourself through the Mill(s), from the Middle Ages to the Middle class.鈥  Houston Post 1 November 1982.
  • Rubins, Josh. 鈥淰ariety Shows鈥 New York Review of Books 16 December 1982: 46-48.
  • Schumaker, Michael. 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 Biting Bits鈥 Milwaukee Journal 28 November 1982.
  • Sheppard, R. Z. 鈥淎 Fall Harvest of Fiction.鈥 Time 1 November 1982: 79.
  • Simon, Jeff. 鈥淲oody Allen Better on Celluloid than Paper.鈥 Buffalo News 28 November 1982.
  • Slipper, Ralph B. 鈥淎 laborer lost at the curb of history.鈥  Los Angeles Times 31 August 1982: 3.
  • Strausbaugh, John. 鈥淭he world, Elkin implies, is just a branch office of a vast bureaucracy.鈥  Baltimore City Paper 24 December 1982.
  • Taliaferro, Frances. 鈥淟yricist of the Lunch Pail.鈥 Harpers November 1982: 75-75.
  • Theroux, Alexander. 鈥淨uirks, quips, quotatoes; tasteless, topical, tired.鈥 Boston Globe 31 October 1982.
  • Trachtenberg, Stanley. 鈥淎 victim of history: Stanley Elkin鈥檚 common man.鈥  Dallas Times Herald 5 December 1982.
  • Tucker, Ken. 鈥淎 Cult Offering for Elkin Fans.鈥 Philadelphia Inquirer 31 October 1982.
  • Uns. ALA Booklist July 1982.
  • Uns.  America 29 January 1983: 62.
  • Uns. Kirkus Reviews 15 August 1982: 948.
  • Uns. 鈥淧ick of the Paperbacks.鈥 Cultural Information Service 17 October 1983.
  • Uns. Publisher鈥檚 Weekly.  20 August 1982: 58.
  • Uns. Southern Humanities Review [n.d.]
  • Wellejus, Ed. 鈥淏ookshelf.鈥 Erie (PA) Times 12 December 1982.

The Magic Kingdom originally published as 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 the Magic Kingdom鈥 (1985).

  • Adams, Robert M. 鈥淭he Story Isn鈥檛 Over,鈥 New York Review of Books 18 July 1985: 20-23.
  • Anderson, Jean.  鈥淓lkin performs feats of language.鈥 Heartland 22 September 1985: H-7.
  • Apple, Max. 鈥淗aving Their Last Good Time.鈥 New York Times Book Review 24 March 1985: 34.
  • Berger, Joseph.  鈥淒efeating the Temptation of Sentimentality.鈥  New York Times Book Review 24 March 1985: 34.
  • Berkley, Miriam. 鈥淭ears and Laughter from Wizard Elkin.鈥 The Plain Dealer 21 April 1985.
  • Boker, Pamela. 鈥溾橧鈥檓 Candy鈥欌 Houston Chronicle 19 May 1985.
  • Buzbee, Lewis. 鈥淟aughing Back into Death鈥檚 Face.鈥 San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle 14 April 1985.
  • Clark, Jeff. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Magic Kingdom.鈥 Library Journal. 110 (April 1985): 85.
  • Connelly, Sherryl. 鈥淭ender Laughter at the Doors of Death.鈥  The Daily News 29 February 1985:  Leisure 7.
  • Cryer, Dan. 鈥淎 Genius for Making Music Out of the Macabre鈥 Newsday 17 March 1985.
  • Curcio, Christine. 鈥淣ovel About Sick Kids Black Comedy.鈥 Night Times (Univ of Pittsburgh) October 1985.
  • Donavin, Denise P. Booklist. 1 February 1985: 738.
  • Eder, Richard. 鈥淭he Magic Kingdom,鈥 International Herald Tribune, 1 April 1985. Also Los Angeles Times 24 March 1985.
  • Geeslin, Campbell.  People Weekly 23 (6 May 1985): 16.
  • Gold, Charles H. 鈥淎 Tough, Funny Tale of Doomed Children.鈥 Chicago Sun-Times, Book Week  31 March 1985: 26.
  • B.H.H. The Anniston Star 7 April 1985: 4D
  • Havenick, Robin. 鈥淒ying Children Find meaning in magic kingdom鈥  Roseburg (OR)  News-Review 26 May 1985.
  • Hildebrand, Holly. 鈥淚nstilling hope, love among black humor in 鈥楳agic Kingdom鈥  Houston Post 5 May 1985.
  • Holliday, Barbara. 鈥淐hildren are the heroes on odd odyssey鈥 Detroit Free Press 28 April 1985.
  • Hoover, Hal and Clara. Voya December 1985.
  • Houston, James. 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 Demons鈥  San Jose Mercury News 24 March 1985.
  • Houston, Levin. 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 expertise evident.鈥  Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance Star 14 May 1985.
  • Jones, Malcolm. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Magic Kingdom,鈥 St. Petersburg Times 7 April 1985, D1,7.
  • Kiser, Thelma Scott , 鈥淏ooks,鈥 Ashland (KY) Sunday Independent 14 April 1985.
  • Kissel, Howard. 鈥淪tanley Elkin Journeys to darkest Disney World.鈥 Women鈥檚 Wear Daily 7 August 1985, 28.
  • Koch, Stephen. 鈥淭he Dark Side of Mickey Mouse.鈥 Washington Post Book World 14 April 1985.
  • Langston Sherrie.  鈥淭he Magic Kingdom Full of Life鈥檚 Absurdities,鈥 The Paris News 20 May 1985.
  • A.G.L., 鈥淣ew Paperbacks.鈥 Jersey Journal 19 February 1986.
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. 鈥淏ooks of The Times,鈥 New York Times Arts/Entertainment 18 May 1985: Y 17.
  • Lescaze, Lee. 鈥淰oyage to the End at Disney World.鈥 Wall Street Journal 12 April 1985.
  • Licklider, Deborah. 鈥淒arkly Humorous Tale in an Unlikely Setting.鈥 Philadelphia Daily News 2 April 1985.
  • Lindberg, Ted. 鈥淏eyond Human Horror,鈥 Washington Times 22 April 1985.
  • Link, Kimberly 鈥淪ardonic 鈥榙ream holiday鈥 makes for bizarre reading.鈥 Chicago Heights IL Star 5 May 1985.
  • Malin, Irving. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 The Magic Kingdom,鈥  Hollins Critic (February 1986): 13.
  • Martone, Michael. 鈥淏elieve It:  SE and the Out-Jesusing of Fiction.鈥 Denver Quarterly Summer 1985: 118-25.
  • Mather, Bobby. 鈥淥n Books,鈥 Oakland Press 24 March 1985.
  • Milazzo, Lee. 鈥淧ower of love permeates odd tale of 鈥楳agic Kingdom鈥欌 Dallas Morning News 21 April 1985.
  • Morgan, Stephen. 鈥淎 time to laugh, a time to die in 鈥楾he Magic Kindgom鈥欌  Boston Herald 14 April 1985.
  • Murray, G. E. 鈥淟ast Laugh at Disney World.鈥  Chicago 34 (April 1985): 124.
  • Olson, Nancy. 鈥淒ying Kids in Disney World.鈥 Milwaukee Journal 7 April 1985:
  • Perrin, Noel. 鈥淪tanley Elkin Meets Mickey Mouse.鈥 USA Today 22 March 1985: 3D.
  • Post, Clarence. 鈥淎 Last Hurrah For The Children,鈥 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 17 March 1985: 4B.
  • Puckett, Daniel. 鈥淭he Magic Kingdom: an improbable comedy about children and death.鈥  Bryan College Station Eagle 30 March 1985. 
  • Reefer, Mary M.,鈥淭ender tale of death in celebration of life.鈥 Kansas City Star 12 May 1985: 1E, 9E.
  • Robertson, William. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 manic world and verbal fury.鈥  Miami Herald 31 March 1985.
  • Schleier, Curt. 鈥淥n Dangerous Terrain,鈥 Grand Rapids Press 28 April 1985.
  • Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 鈥楳agic Kingdom鈥 a Hell on Earth.鈥 Chicago Tribune Book World 21 April 1985.
  • Seabrook, John. 鈥淔reaks.鈥 The Nation 240 (1 June 1985): 681-2.
  • Sechrist, Laura. 鈥淓lkin/鈥檚 鈥楳agic鈥 bizarre.鈥 Columbus Dispatch 28 April 1985.
  • Simmons, Charles. 鈥淒eath Be Not Fun.鈥 Vogue 175 (April 1985): 234.
  • Thomas, Sidney. 鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 The Magic Kingdom鈥 Atlanta Journal and Constitution 21 April 1985.
  • Tyler, Anne. 鈥淪tanley and the horror factory.鈥 Detroit News 14 April 1985.
  • Uns. ALA Booklist 1 February 1985.
  • Uns. 鈥淭he Best of 1985.鈥 Newsday 8 December 1985.
  • Uns. Cultural Information Service 31 May 1985: 7-8
  • Uns. 鈥淗ere鈥檚 some of the year鈥檚 best in fact and fiction鈥 Miami Herald 11 December 1985.
  • Uns. Kirkus Reviews 15 January 1985. 
  • Uns. New Yorker 61 (8 April 1961): 128.
  • Uns. 鈥淧aperbacks.鈥  Chicago Tribune 25 May 1986.
  • Uns. Publisher鈥檚 Weekly 1 February 1985: 347.
  • Walton, David. 鈥溾橫agic Kingdom鈥 bogs down in beery declamations.鈥 Pittsburgh Press 24 July 1985.
  • Wolcott, James.  鈥淔inal Fling.鈥 Vanity Fair April 1985: 95.
  • Wyatt, Robert. 鈥淪trong Medicine: 鈥楳agic Kingdom鈥.鈥 Nashville Tennessean 14 July 1985.
  • Yanovsky. Joel. 鈥淢elancholy Truth Exposed in Novel.鈥 Calgary (Alberta) Herald 19 May 1985.
  • Yurick, Sol. 鈥2 modern tales that mock fate in surreal worlds,鈥 Philadelphia Inquirer Books/Leisure 9 June 1985: 1,6.
  • Zand, Nicole. 鈥淢ourir 脿 Disneyworld.鈥  Le Monde 19 February 1993.

The Rabbi of Lud (1987).

  • Burgin, Richard.  鈥淭he rabbi鈥檚 rhetoric.鈥 St, Petersburg Times  13 December 1987.
  • Carb, Alison B.  鈥淥y vey?  The Rabbi鈥檚 backyard is a cemetery.鈥 Boston Herald, 22 November 1987.
  • Connaroe, Joel.  鈥淓lkin:  the kidder鈥檚 kaddish.鈥 USA Today 20 November 1987.
  • Craig, Paul.  鈥淭he Rabbi of Lud leaves 鈥榚m vexed.鈥  McClatchy News Service [n.d.]
  • Cryer, Dan.  鈥淩ueful Slapstick and Jewish Funerals.鈥 Newsday 2 November 1987.
  • Dowling, Tom.  鈥淎n author鈥檚 universe of untrammeled hysteria.鈥 San Francisco Examiner 19 November 1989. 
  • Eder, Richard. 鈥淧lot Finds Despair in Rabbi鈥檚 Cemetery.鈥 LA Times 28 October 1987
  • Getto, Dennis. 鈥淩abbi鈥檚 Tale.鈥  Milwaukee Journal, 20 December 1987.
  • Gold, Charles.  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 ferociously funny story carries many blessings.鈥 Chicago Sun-Times Book Week 4 October 1986
  • Grossman, Ron.  鈥淧eople are dying to meet Rabbi of Lud.鈥 Philadelphia Inquirer 16 December  1987.
  • Harris, Roger,  鈥淎 joyous shtick inspires 鈥淭he Rabbi of Lud.鈥 Newark Star Ledger. [n.d.]
  • Hall, Barbara Hodge.  鈥淓lkin pens a comic masterpiece.鈥 The Anniston Star 8 November 1987.
  • Koenig, Rhoda.  鈥淏ooks.鈥 New York 12 October 1987.
  • Krieger, Elliot.  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 latest novel a wildly uneven ride.鈥  Providence Sunday Journal.  [nd]
  • Lauzen, Sarah, E.  鈥淒eath Is His Life.鈥 Chicago January 1988: 123-4.
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher.  鈥淏ooks of the Times.鈥 New York Times 29 October 1987.
  • Madden, David.  鈥淭he Picaro as a Klutz.鈥 San Francisco Chronicle.  8 November 1987.
  • Muro, Mark. 鈥淭he baffling brilliance of Stanley Elkin.鈥  The Boston Globe. 26 November 1987.
  • Olson, Clarence E.  鈥淧ipeline to Death Filled with Wit and Irony.鈥 St, Louis Post-Dispatch 1 November 1987.
  • Reefer, Mary M.  鈥 鈥楻abbi鈥 of Lud devoted to death.鈥 Kansas City Star 29 November 1987.
  • Rothe, Louise.  鈥淗umorous Novel Introduces Rabbi.鈥  Chattanooga News-Free Press 29 November 1987.
  • Schechner, Mark.  鈥 鈥楾he Rabbi of Lud鈥: Tasteless, Delightful.鈥 Buffalo News 13 November 1987.
  • Uns. Booklist 15 October 1987.
  • Uns. Kirkus Reviews 1 September 1987.
  • Uns. Library Journal 15 October 1987.
  • Uns. Publisher鈥檚 Weekly  [n.d.]
  • Uns.  鈥淭he Rabbi of Lud.鈥 Biloxi Sun-Herald 6 December 1987.
  • West, Paul.  鈥淭he Many Voices of Stanley Elkin.鈥 Washington Post 29 November 1987.

Reviews of 鈥淣otes Toward a Eulogy for Joan Cohen,鈥 (1987-1988 season).

  • Baker, Martha.  鈥淲ords To Move You.鈥 Connoisseur [n.d.].
  • Pollack, Joe. 鈥淎 New Turn of Phrase for Elkin.鈥 St. Louis Post-Dispatch [n.d.]
  • Wierzbicki, James.  鈥淒ance Troupe Interprets Elkin Story.鈥 St Louis Post-Dispatch 11 May 1987.

The MacGuffin (1991).

  • Bowden, Mark,  鈥淎 dizzying ride with a streets commissioner from Podunk.鈥 Philadelphia Inquirer 31 March 1991.
  • Costro, Joseph.  鈥淎rias of Angst.鈥 Chicago Tribune 17 March 1991.
  • Cryer, Dan.  鈥淎 Highbrow Mystery without a Solution.鈥 New York Newsday 11 March 1991.
  • Dachslager,. Earl L.  鈥淒ecline of Bobbo Druff:  Elkin鈥檚 Excess has Few Rewards.鈥  Houston Chronicle 7 April 1991.
  • Dirda, Michael.  鈥淏obbo Druff鈥檚 Last Stand.鈥  Washington Post 10 March 1991.
  • Dolan, Mark.  鈥淛azz-like rhythms syncopate prose.鈥 Florida Times-Union [Jacksonville] 16 June 1991.
  • Eder, Richard. 鈥淎ge Before Duty.鈥 Los Angeles Times 10 March 1991, syndicated as 鈥淢iddle Age Catches up with Everyman.鈥 Sun-Sentinel 24 March 1991.
  • Edwards, Thomas R.  鈥淏ehind Gravity鈥檚 back.鈥 New Republic 20 May 1991.
  • Feeney, Mark.  鈥淟eopold Bloom in a Limousine.鈥 Boston Globe 3 March 1991.
  • Gold, Charles H.  鈥淭he Terror of Living:  a brilliant, Byzantine novel from Stanley Elkin.鈥 Chicago Sun-Times Book Week 24 March 1991.
  • Gray, Paul.  鈥淎 Spring Bouquet of Fiction,鈥 Time 25 March 1991.
  • Hall, Barbara Hodge.  鈥 鈥楳acGuffin鈥 funny, poignant story.鈥 Anniston [AL] Star  3 March 1991.
  • Hathaway, Steven.  鈥淭he MacGuffin鈥 is full of flair, humor.鈥  The Wichita Eagle 5 May 1991.
  • Koenig, Rhoda.  鈥淭he MacGuffin.鈥 New York 25 February 1991.
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, 鈥淪omewhere Between Hell and Disney World.鈥  New York Times 18 February 1991.
  • Maniston, Charles G. 鈥淕etting there is all the fun.鈥 Kansas City Star 7 July 1991.
  • Miller, Mark.  鈥淐omic Novel 鈥楳acGuffin鈥 takes reader on MacCoca fantasy trip.鈥 Washington Times Books 18 March 1991.
  • Moore, Lonnie.  鈥淏obbo Druff鈥檚 Alcoholic Vaudeville.鈥 New York Times Book Review 10 March 1991.
  • Morace, Robert.  鈥淭he MacGuffin.鈥  Magill Book Reviews for Dow Jones Retrieval.
  • Norman, Geoffrey.  鈥淲hat鈥檚 Good From the Garden.鈥 American Way 1 April 1991.
  • Olson, Clarence E.  鈥淒eep, Dark Magic of Stanley Elkin.鈥 St Louis Post-Dispatch 3 March 1991.
  • Peters, Ross.  鈥淭he MacGuffin.鈥  The Review [University City/Philadelphia] 28 June 1991.
  • Rodgers, Judson.  鈥淭he MacGuffin.鈥 Bookpage Review  April 1991.
  • Salm, Arthur.  鈥淓lkin brings in a 鈥淢acGuffin鈥 for comic mischief.鈥 San Diego Tribune 1 March 1991.
  • Seaman, Donna.  鈥淭he MacGuffin.鈥  Booklist  1 January 1991.
  • Seeyle., John.  鈥淪eriously Funny.鈥 Chicago March 1991.
  • Simpson, Peter.  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 鈥楳acGuffin鈥 strikes a bit too close to home for reviewer.鈥  West End World 4 April 1991
  • Snider, Eric.  鈥淎 Man in the Middle.鈥 St. Petersburg Times 31 March 1991.
  • Uns. 鈥淏riefly Noted鈥 The New Yorker 2 April 1991.
  • Uns. Kirkus Reviews 1 January 1991.
  • Uns. Library Journal 1 February 1991.
  • Uns. Publisher鈥檚 Weekly 28 January 1991.
  • Weiner, Richard.  鈥淭ripping through Paranoia.鈥 Review 17 February 1991.
  • Winn, David.  鈥淏rain Music.鈥 American Book Reviews February/March 1991.

Pieces of Soap: Essays by Stanley Elkin (1992).

  • Craig, Paul.  鈥淏rilliant writing from a quirky curmudgeon.鈥 Houston Post 22 March 1992.
  • Cryer, Dan.  鈥淩emembrance Of Goofiness Past.鈥  Newsday 17 February 1992.
  • Dougherty, David C. 鈥淧ieces of Soap: Essays by Stanley Elkin.鈥  The Old Northwest 16 (1992).
  • Drew, Bettina.  鈥淰irtuoso Digressions.鈥 Chicago 1992.
  • Edmundson, Mark,  鈥淪tanley Elkin and All That Jazz.鈥 Washington Post Book World 29 March 1992.
  • Greenberg, Cara.  鈥淔uture Worth: Before It鈥檚 Hot, Grab It.鈥  New York Times 27 February 1992.
  • Johnson, David R.  鈥淧ieces of Soap.鈥  America 12 December 1992.
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher,  鈥淣ew Fun with Whoopee Cushions.鈥 New York Times 13 February 1992.
  • Morace, Robert.  鈥淧ieces of Soap.鈥  Magill Book Reviews for Dow Jones News. [n.d.]
  • Moore, Steven, 鈥淪tanley Elkin, Pieces of Soap.鈥 Review of Contemporary Fiction [n.d.]: 240-41.
  • Olson, Clarence E.  鈥淭he Challenge of a Passionate Intelligence.鈥 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 16 February 1992.
  • Sachs, Lloyd.  鈥淓lkin, Byatt:  Essays of bite and of bland.鈥  Chicago Sun-Times Book Week 9 February 1992.
  • Simon, Jeff, 鈥淭he Craft of the Essay, Resplendent.鈥  Buffalo News 23 February 1992.
  • Steelye, John.  鈥淟ives of the Party.鈥  Chicago February 1992.
  • Taylor, Robert.  鈥淪tanley Elkin, wise man and wise guy.鈥 Boston Globe 19 February 1992.
  • Uns. Kirkus Reviews.   15 December 1991.
  • Uns. Publishers鈥 Weekly 3 December 1991.
  • Walters, Colin.  鈥淓ssayist Elkin Lathers his 鈥楽oap.鈥欌  Washington Times 1 March 1992.

Van Gogh鈥檚 Room at Arles: Novellas (1993).

  • Beattie, L. Elisabeth.  鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 brilliance wins out over tediousness.鈥  Lexington Herald-Leader 11 April 1993.
  • Brick, Julie,  鈥淪tanley Elkin tests extreme of human need.鈥  Montreal Gazette 10 April 1993.
  • Buzbee, Lewis. 鈥淭he Chaos Theory: Stanley Elkin gets crabby.鈥 San Francisco Bay Guardian Literary Supplement March 1993.
  • Di Bernardi, Dominic.  鈥3 novellas with an eye for the comic in people and predicaments.鈥  Philadelphia Inquirer 9 March 1993.
  • Dougherty, David C. 鈥淰an Gogh鈥檚 Room at Arles: Three Novellas.鈥 Studies in Short Fiction  31 (1994): 115-116.
  • Eckoff, Sally S. 鈥淰an Gogh鈥檚 Room at Arles.鈥 Voice Literary Supplement 1 June 1993.
  • Gates, Dominic.  鈥淏riefly.鈥 Seattle Times 13 June 1993.
  • Gowen, Anne.  鈥淲hat鈥檚 Missing from the 鈥楻oom鈥?鈥  Washington Times 30 March 1993.
  • Graham, Phillip.  鈥淪tanley Elkin鈥檚 Displaced Persons.鈥  Chicago Tribune Books 21 February 1993.
  • Hall, Barbara Hodge.  鈥 鈥淰an Gogh鈥檚 Room鈥 quintessential Elkin.鈥 Anniston Star 28 May 1993.
  • Kakutani, Michico.  鈥淧eople with Bad Luck and Even Worse Behavior.鈥 New York Times 23 February 1993: C15.
  • Kelman, Suzanne.  鈥淥n the cutting edge.鈥  Toronto Globe and Mail 20 May 1993.
  • Lemon, Lee.  Prairie Schooner Summer 1994.
  • Marx, Bill.  鈥淰oice Virtuoso,鈥 Boston Phoenix Literary Section April 1993.
  • Moore, Steven. 鈥溾淔alling down and calling up鈥 Boston Herald 28 March 1993; syndicated as 鈥淧op Culture spices Stanley Elkin novellas.鈥 Rocky Mountain News 25 April 1993.
  • Olsen, Clarence.  鈥淎 Serving of Elkin Lite.鈥  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 11 April 1993.
  • Prose, Francine.  鈥淔iction in Review.鈥 The Yale Review 81: 1993.
  • Reed, Ronald.  鈥淐haracters in the dark, searching for disaster.鈥  Fort Worth Star-Telegram 11 April 1993.
  • Scharper, Diane.  鈥淕ulping down rich feast of Elkin鈥檚 prose.鈥 Baltimore Sun 16 June 1993.
  • Taylor, Robert.  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 novellas are filled with heart, humor.鈥  Nashville Tennessean 16 May 1993.
  • Uns. 鈥淏riefly Noted.鈥 Saturday Review [n.d.]
  • Uns. 鈥淓ditors鈥 Choice: Books for vacation Reading.鈥 New York Times Book Review 5 June 1994.
  • Uns. Kirkus Reviews 15 December 1992.
  • Uns. New York Times Book Review  5 December 1993.
  • Uns.  Publisher鈥檚 Weekly 14 December 1992.
  • Uns. 鈥淪hort and Sweet.鈥 Newark Star-Ledger 4 April 1993.
  • Uns. 鈥淰an Gogh鈥檚 Room at Arles.鈥 Atlanta Constitution 21 March 1993.
  • Uns., 鈥淰an Gogh鈥檚 Room at Arles,鈥 New York Magazine 8 March 1993.
  • Uns. 鈥淰angoogh鈥檚 [sic] Room at Arles.鈥 Rainbo Electronic Reviews 1993.
  • Uns. 鈥淰olumes Bound to be of Interest.鈥 Philadelphia Inquirer 12 December 1993.
  • Uns. 鈥淲orth getting and Giving.鈥 Chicago Tribune 5 December 1993.
  • Weiner, Bernard.  鈥淥n the Brink of Breakdown.鈥   San Francisco Chronicle  7 March 1993.
  • Wolitzer, Meg.  鈥淭he Roaring Anger of Not being in Charge.鈥  New York Times Book Review 21 March 1993.

Mrs. Ted Bliss (1995).

  • Anderson, Roger K.  鈥淎 Pinch of Miami Spice.鈥 Dallas Morning News 8 October 1995.
  • Bandler, Michael J.  鈥淏lissandbluster: a woman breaks free of convention.鈥  Fort Worth Star Telegram 29 October 1995.
  • Brisick, William C.  鈥淎n author鈥檚 last testament speaks to all readers.鈥  The Register 12 November 1995.
  • Cryer, Dan.  鈥淗igh Priest鈥檚 Legacy.鈥 New York Newsday 21 August 1995.
  • Dirda, Michael. 鈥淔inding life (and laughs) after death in Miami.鈥 Miami Herald 10 September 1995; syndicated as 鈥淭he lessons of death.鈥  San Jose Mercury News 24 September 1995.
  • Goodman, Walter.  鈥淭wilight of a Baleboosteh.鈥  New York Times Book Review 17 September 1995.
  • Hall, Barbara Hodge,  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 final novel one of his most exceptional.鈥 Anniston Star 15 October 1995.
  • Harkins, Susan Lynne.  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 last novel is bravura performance.鈥  Orlando Sentinel 26 November 1995.
  • Held, James.  鈥淎 novel about an old woman who knows how to live.鈥  Philadelphia Inquirer  1 October 1995.
  • Herter, Philip.  鈥淧layful to the End.鈥 St. Petersburg Times 1 October 1995. 
  • Holoday, Barbara.  鈥淪uch Bliss.鈥 Detroit Free Press 20 September 1995. 
  • Howard, Maureen.  鈥淪unset over Miami.鈥 LA Times Book Review 3 September 1995; syndicated as 鈥淓lkin Ended Well.鈥 Sarasota herald Tribune  24 September 1995 and  鈥淏liss a brilliant end to Elkin鈥檚 career.鈥 Providence Journal Bulletin. 17 September 1995.
  • Kakutani, Michiko. 鈥淭he Wild Life and Times of a Miami Widow.鈥  New York Times 8 September 1995.
  • Lawlor, William.  鈥淎 Widow endures while all falls away.鈥  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 27 August 1995.
  • Marx, Bill.  鈥淢rs. Ted Bliss鈥  Bookmarks: The Boston Phoenix Literary Section September 1995.
  • Mesic, Penelope.  鈥淥ne great granny.鈥  Chicago Tribune 24 September 1995.
  • Milovsky, David.  Prairie Schooner, Winter 1995: 150-153.
  • Olson, Clarence E.  鈥淢rs. Ted Bliss鈥檚 Farewell.鈥  St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3 September 1995.
  • Pritchard, William S.  鈥淥n the Beach.鈥  Boston Sunday Globe 3 September 1995.
  • Remick, David.  鈥淔leeing Bliss.鈥 The New Yorker 25 September 1995.
  • Saltzman, Arthur M.  鈥淢rs. Ted Bliss.鈥  Review of Contemporary Fiction 16  (Spring 1996).
  • Shindler, Dorman.  鈥淓lkin鈥檚 鈥楳rs. Ted Bliss鈥 a mix of fantasy, reality.鈥 The Denver Post  24 September 1995. 
  • Warren, Tim, 鈥淎ging widow hangs tough in Elkin鈥檚 moving, funny, novel.鈥 Houston Chronicle 17 December 1995.
  • Waters, Colin.  鈥淎 spiritually profound 鈥楤liss.鈥欌  Washington Times 10 September 1995.
  • Weiner, Bernard.  鈥淎 Woman鈥檚 Final Adventure.鈥  San Francisco Chronicle 15 October 1995.
  • Whaley, Charles. 鈥淢eet Mrs Bliss鈥 Louisville Courier Journal 11 November 1995; syndicated as 鈥淓lkin鈥檚 last book in  鈥楤liss.鈥  Nashville Tennessean 10 December 1995.
  • Zacharia, Janine.  鈥淏aleboosteh Blues.鈥 The Jerusalem Report  25 January 1996.

Bibliographies of Elkin鈥檚 Work

Most books and articles on Elkin, including the several entries in encyclopedias or literature, both electronic and print, contain bibliographies. This list notes only separately-published bibliographies.

  • McCaffrey, Larry.  鈥淪tanley Elkin: A Bibliography, 1957-1977.鈥  Bulletin of Bibliography 34 (April 1977): 73-76.
  • Nadel, Ira Bruce.  鈥淪tanley Elkin, 1930-.鈥  In Jewish Writers of North America: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale, 1981: 195-196.
  • Robins, William M.  鈥淎 Bibliography of Stanley Elkin.鈥  Critique 26 (Summer 1985): 169-184.
  • _______.  Stanley Elkin: A Comprehensive Bibliography.  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Special Library Collections

  • The Olin Library, Washington University, St. Louis, houses two separate Elkin archives in the Special Collections.  Other collections containing correspondence from or to Elkin that were cited in Shouting Down the Silence:
  • The Albert and Naomi Lebowitz collection, Olin Library.
  • The Georges and Anne Borchardt collections, Columbia University.
  • The William H. Gass collection, Olin Library.
  • Sewanee University, Sewanee, TN, houses an extensive video archive of Elkin鈥檚 participation in Sewanee Writer鈥檚 Conferences during the 1990s.

 

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