Stanley Elkin
Born
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
May 11, 1930
Died
May 31, 1995
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Genre
Influences
William Faulkner, Albert Camus, Saul Bellow, John Barth
Living End
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25 editions
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1979
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The Magic Kingdom
25 editions
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1985
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Mrs. Ted Bliss
21 editions
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1995
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The Franchiser
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19 editions
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1976
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The Dick Gibson Show
2 editions
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1971
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Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers
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23 editions
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1965
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Searches and Seizures
16 editions
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1973
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Bad Man
27 editions
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1968
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Van Gogh's Room at Arles: Three Novellas
6 editions
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1993
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George Mills
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18 editions
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1982
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“I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough. ”
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“There’s something comforting, almost soothing, about realism, and it’s nothing to do with shocks of recognition — well it wouldn’t, since shocks never console — or even with the familiarity that breeds content, so as much as with the fact that the realistic world, in literature, at least, is one that, from a certain perspective, always makes sense, even in its bum deals and tragedies, inasmuch as it plays — even showboats and grandstands — to our passion for reason. The realistic tradition presumes to deal, I mean, with cause and effect, with some deep need in readers — in all of us — for justice, with the demand for the explicable reap/sow benefits (or punishments), with the law of just desserts — with all God’s and Nature’s organic bookkeeping. And since form fits and follows function, style is instructed not to make waves but merely to tag along, easy as pie, taking in everything that can be seen along the way but not much more and nothing at all of what isn’t immediately available to the naked eye.”
― Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers
― Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers
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