Items

• The Dick Gibson Show - Theatrical Adaptation Reviews and Advertisements

  Advertisements, photocopies of advertisements, programs, clippings and tear-sheets of reviews the theatrical adaptation of "The Dick Gibson Show".
• The Dick Gibson Show - Theatrical Adaptation Program

  A photocopy of the program for the theatrical adaptation of "The Dick Gibson Show".
• Stanley Elkin reads from "The Dick Gibson Show" [sound recording]

  “New Letters on the Air” audio recording of Elkin talking about and reading from The Dick Gibson Show in 1979.
• Lincolnwood Library 3rd Annual Literary Festival

  Signed poster promoting the Lincolnwood Library 3rd Annual Literary Festival, featuring Bernard Malamud, Judith Guest and Stanley Elkin
• Terakado to Elking, 1970: June 24

  Typed letter from Yasuhiko Terakado, the translator of "A Bad Man" from English to Japanese, to Stanley Elkin.
• Fox to Elkin, 1965: July 20

  Correspondence from Joseph M. Fox, editor at Random House Inc., to Stanley Elkin concerning "Everything Must Go" in the Saturday Evening Post.
• A Bad Man - Author's Notes

  Autograph list of chapters and organizational notes for "The Bad Man" written on Smith College letterhead.
• A Bad Man - Typescript Draft, chapter 5

  Chapter 5 from a typescript draft of "A Bad Man", with extensive autograph corrections.
• A Bad Man - Dust Jackets

  Dust jackets mounted originally in frames by Joan Elkin and displayed in the Elkin home in St. Louis, Missouri. One combines the dust jackets of A Bad Man and The Dick Gibson Show.
• Fox to Elkin, 1964: February 14

  Letter from Joseph M Fox, editor at Random House, Inc., to Stanley Elkin concerning the publication of "Boswell".
• Posters advertising Stanley Elkin's Readings

  Three posters promoting Stanley Elking reading his short stories.
• Program and Play adaptation by Mark Crowell

  Photocopy of typescript play adaptation of "The Guest" by Mark Crowell. It was adapted for the Chamber Theatre and the Armory Free Theatre and includes a program and flyer for Armory Free Theatre production.
• Plimpton to Elkin

  Letter from George Plimpton, editor of The Paris Review, requesting permission to reprint "The Guest" in an upcoming anthology.
• Crowell to Elkin

  Letter from Mark R. Crowell to Stanley Elkin requesting permission to adapt and stage "The Guest".
• Perlmutter at the East Pole setting copy

  Tearsheets of "Perlmutter at the East Pole" used as a setting copy for the book, "Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers." Includes autograph annotations by the author. First published in Saturday Evening Post, February 13, 1959.
• Play Adaptation of Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers

  Playbill, reviews, and a photograph of the play adapted and directed by Arnold Aprill as "The Magic Barrell and Other Stories" at the National Jewish Theater.
• “Cousin Poor Leslie and the Lousy People” Setting Copy

  “Cousin Poor Leslie and the Lousy People” setting copy taken from a published version and further edited and marked up for the book.
• "The Sun's Light Morning Game" Typescript

  "The Sun's Light Morning Game" typescript with extensive autograph corrections. This story was published as "Among the Witnesses".
• Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers - Setting Copy

  Setting copy of "Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers" with notations.
• "The Guest" [sound recording]

  Audio recording of Elkin reading “The Guest” for Printed Voice’s Contemporary Fiction Series in 1974 and a photograph of Elkin from the event.