In the following excerpt from his Robert McAlmon: Expatriate Publisher and Writer, Knoll discusses McAlmon's fiction and poetry as unpolished and energetic.

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.

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 significant American writer.

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 Vacation's Job,” while believing that many of his other stories were insufficiently developed.

In the following essay, Knoll comments on the Berlin stories in McAlmon's Distinguished Air (Grim Fairy Tales).

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 the book while identifying McAlmon as an unrecognized influence on the prose of Ernest Hemingway and other writers of the 1920s and 1930s.

In the following essay, Card discusses McAlmon's editorial claims concerning James Joyce's Ulysses.

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.

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.

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.

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, Ohio.