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A passage such as this one is much more interested in setting up Elkin's signature lyric rhythms and, in this case, doling out strange and, in context, goofy words -- "vambrace and cuisee and greave" -- than in establishing Elkin's ability to dispense "some lovely little selection of words."

Style in Fiction 2009

In many ways, all of Elkin's characters seem just like all the others, are versions of this most important character, the writer.

Style in Fiction 2009

Elkin's case was delayed one year in the military justice system during which time there was no advancement in the investigation.

Kelly Nicholls: A Mother's Fight for Justice Kelly Nicholls 2010

No one who loves Stanley Elkin's work, as I do, could want it any other way.

Style in Fiction 2009

It comes from Elkin's inimitable and inexhaustibly inventive style.

Style in Fiction 2009

Don't miss David Reed's riveting remembrance of Philip Guston at the New York Studio School, painter Sean Scully filmed at work in his studio, a collection of historic interviews with painter Louis Finkelstein, or James Elkin's close look at 'unfinished' paintings.

Brett Baker: Top Ten Best Painting Posts in February on Painter's Table Brett Baker 2011

Elkin's case was delayed one year in the military justice system during which time there was no advancement in the investigation.

Kelly Nicholls: A Mother's Fight for Justice Kelly Nicholls 2010

Elkin's case was delayed one year in the military justice system during which time there was no advancement in the investigation.

Kelly Nicholls: A Mother's Fight for Justice Kelly Nicholls 2010

Perhaps the finest postwar American writer (in my view) is Stanley Elkin, whose work is relentlessly comic in an almost vaudevillian way, and which implicitly includes within its comic purview Elkin's own hyperactive, gloriously excessive style, its at times ridiculously extended tropes and setpieces offered up as the focus of laughter in and of themselves.

Comedy in Literature 2010

Elkin's case was delayed one year in the military justice system during which time there was no advancement in the investigation.

Kelly Nicholls: A Mother's Fight for Justice Kelly Nicholls 2010