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Modern Literature Reading Series |
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Stanley Elkin: Reading Stanley Elkin Monday, August 25 7:00 p.m. Special Collections First Floor, Olin Library Reception after. All are welcome. |
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The Stanley Elkin Papers Modern Literature Collection |
The Modern Literature Reading Series begins the fall semester with a reading featuring the work of Stanley Elkin. Richard Benjamin, David Dougherty (whose recently published casebook on the Dick Gibson Show is now online), and Kellie Wells explore the fiction and thought of Stanley Elkin. Richard Benjamin¸ graduate student in Creative Writing program at Washington University. David Dougherty, director of the Graduate Program in Liberal Studies and professor of English at Loyola College in Maryland. He is the author of book-length study of Stanley Elkin (1930-1995), and editor of a casebook on Elkin’s The Dick Gibson Show. He also wrote the introduction to the forthcoming Dalkey Archive edition of Elkin’s A Bad Man. His current research is toward a biography of Elkin. Kellie Wells, assistant professor in the English Department at Washington University. She is a fiction writer and teaches in the MFA program. Her collection of short fiction called Compression Scars, which came out last fall, is a Flannery O’Connor Award winner and was just chosen for a Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. |
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