A reminiscence of Stanley Elkin & a one-on-one workshop session I was lucky enough to have.
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A Good Man Gives Me A Bad Man
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Tonight, I went with Greg Gerke to an event honoring the ever-inimitable Stanley Elkin. After a short documentary of Elkin’s life (featuring soundbites from his wife, daughter, William Gass, and others), Sam Lipsyte and David C. Dougherty weighed in. Lipsyte discussed the might and mythos of Elkin, and remarked on the effect that Elkin’s prose [...]