2: Novelist STANLEY ELKIN. He was called "one of the most entertaining stylists in contemporary American fiction." 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 included, The MacGuffin, The Magic Kingdom, and others. ELKIN was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis twenty years ago. ELKIN died of heart failure on Wednesday, May 31, 1995. His novel Mrs. Ted Bliss will be published in September. (REBROADCAST FROM 3
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