SOURCE: "Remembering Stanley Elkin, Master of Excess," in The New York Times Book Review, September 17, 1995, p. 43.
[Wolff, an American novelist, biographer, essayist, and educator, was a close friend of Elkin's. In the following reminiscence, he describes the author's "extravagant" literary style and the irreverence, tenacity, and "breath-stopping candor" with which he lived his life.]
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