Over at the Reading William Gass website, curated by Stephen Schenkenberg, a video has been unearthed of Gass talking in…
A Year of Reading
I read 203 books in 2011, or, on average, a little more than one book every two days. You…
Guest Post: W.F. Lantry Remembering Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin: Fiction as a Form of Mathematics By W.F. Lantry So there I was, just inside the Beltway, watching…
Stanley Elkin, Ghosting Through Boston, Beautifully
A reminiscence of Stanley Elkin & a one-on-one workshop session I was lucky enough to have.
Guest Post: Hilma Wolitzer on Stanley Elkin
It was such glorious fun to be Stanley Elkin’s friend as well as his reader. He was always wonderfully irreverent…
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: “The Condominium”
“The Condominium,” the third and final novella in Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures, features another rather garrulous “hero,” this time…
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: “The Making of Ashenden”
Ken Emerson, in his rather fine article “The Indecorous, Rabelaisian, Convoluted Righteousness of Stanley Elkin” (March 3, 1991) writes: Elkin,…
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: On “The Bailbondsman”
If you’ve been following along with us here at Big Other, you know that in January we read and discussed…
A Good Man Gives Me A Bad Man
Tonight, I went with Greg Gerke to an event honoring the ever-inimitable Stanley Elkin. After a short documentary of Elkin’s…
Announcing the Book Club Schedule!
The votes are in, and the winner of the poll for the first book to be discussed in the Big…