Stanly Elkin was born in New York City on 11 May 1930 and was raised in Chicago. His father, a traveling salesman with a gift for storytelling, probably exerted the single most important influence on ...
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Among American-Jewish writers, Stanley Elkin has a very special place. Like other writers of his American-born generation, he deals with a heritage rather than the personal experience of immigration o...
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When Stanley Elkin died in 1995, he had already fallen into the dreaded category of "a writer's writer." Although literary critics and fellow novelists continued to celebrate his daring, zany innovati...
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Fond of fracturing readers' expectations, Stanley Elkin made his most profound impact on his fellow writers. Toward the end of his life, his books were falling out of print, and only specialized editi...
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When a restaurant called "Hitler's Cross" opened four days ago in a Bombay suburb, the city's small Jewish community was outraged, but there were few other objections.
Owner Puneet Sa...
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When a restaurant called "Hitler's Cross" opened four days ago in a Bombay suburb, the city's small Jewish community was outraged, but there were few other objections.
Owner Puneet Sa...
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ISLAMABAD, Nov 17 (Reuters) - U.S. envoy John Negroponte
met President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday to exert pressure on
him to revoke two-week-old emergency rule and make peace with
opposition le...
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Environment: Whatever happened to the rain forest? The virtuous cause seems to have become an endangered species with the totemic rise of global warming. Maybe that's the lesson.Not too long ago, t...
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Among the painful signs of our time are the shocked reactions to Chuck Norris' raising the question of whether Senator John McCain is too old to be president.Have we reached the point where we have...
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Does John Edwards include Jews in his prayers? Or Muslims? Or Hindus? Or any other non-Christians? He didn't the other day. The other day, in order to commemorate those killed at...
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Manny Ramirez sent one fan home with a baseball and the rest with a reminder of Boston's last World Series run. The MVP of the 2004 Series homered off Francisco Rodriguez with two outs in the ninth...
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Bird poop has splattered the stern likeness of Capt. James Cook staring to sea from the western lip of the westernmost major Hawaiian island.From his perch in a shady square in the town of Waimea o...
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Some of what Larry Summers said about scientific and mathematical aptitudes was sensible enough. And some of it was the kind of bosh you can expect from an economist, as Mr. Summers is.Reflections ...
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Stanley L(awrence) Elkin
New Restaurant Bears Hitler's Name
