Novelist STANLEY ELKIN. He's been called "one of the most entertaining stylists in contemporary American fiction." And that ELKIN's use of metaphor, "transforms grotesque situations and the drab vulgarity of popular consumer culture into comic affirmations of human existence." (from "Contemporary Literary Criticism). His novels include, "The MacGuffin," "The Magic Kingdom," and others. His latest book of novellas is "Van Gogh's Room at Arles." (Hyperion). ELKIN was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis twenty years ago. He'll talk about his writing and his life and how it's changed since the disease has progressed
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