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Boswell: A Modern Comedy

novel by Elkin

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  • In Stanley Elkin

    Elkin’s first novel, Boswell: A Modern Comedy (1964), tells of an ordinary man who founds a club for famous individuals, hoping like his namesake to bask in reflected glory. Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers (1966), a collection of comic short stories on Jewish themes and characters, was…

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