In many ways Robert McAlmon was one of the best representatives of his time. He came to Paris in 1921 with little French and no particular interest in French culture; he spent most of his productive y...
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Robert McAlmon is one of the major, though neglected, literary figures of the 1920s. He stood at the center of the whole phenomenon known to legend as "the lost generation," that extraordinary company...
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In the following excerpt from his Robert McAlmon: Expatriate Publisher and Writer, Knoll discusses McAlmon's fiction and poetry as unpolished and energetic.
McAlmon's critical assumpt...
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In the following review of a reissue of McAlmon's Post-Adolescence, Card agrees with Edward Lorusso that McAlmon's fiction could have benefited from a good editor.
Mary Garden remarke...
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In the following review of a reissue of McAlmon's Miss Knight and Others, Byrne identifies McAlmon as a groundbreaking author ahead of his time.
Ezra Pound gave us the definitive “hai...
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In the following review of Robert Knoll's Robert McAlmon: Expatriate Publisher and Writer, Boyle—a close friend and collaborator of McAlmon's—identifies factual errors in t...
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In the following essay, Knoll comments on the Berlin stories in McAlmon's Distinguished Air (Grim Fairy Tales).
McAlmon was no more able to stay put in Europe than in America. He moved restl...
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In the following essay, Card discusses McAlmon's editorial claims concerning James Joyce's Ulysses.
One apocryphal anecdote about Joyce and the making of Ulysses that seems to be gene...
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In the following essay, Smoller examines McAlmon's critical reception, believing that McAlmon was a successful writer despite the fact that he is lesser-known than most of his contemporaries.
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In the following excerpted review of a reissue of McAlmon's A Hasty Bunch, Peden favorably compares McAlmon's depictions of small-town life with Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohi...
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In the following excerpted afterword to a reissue of McAlmon's, A Hasty Bunch Boyle asserts that McAlmon's best short stories were “A Boy's Discovery” and “A ...
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In the following introduction to a reissue of McAlmon's Post-Adolescence, Lorusso writes that McAlmon's prose contains many flaws, but that several of his stories identify him as a signi...
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In the following review of a reissue of McAlmon's Village: As It Happened through a Fifteen-Year Period, Pekar writes that he believes the book would have been improved by revisions.
Anyone ...
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Robert (Menzies) McAlmon
Critical Essay by Robert E. Knoll
