X-ray K

Publisher Marketing: X-Ray-K is Richard Kostelanetz's selections of choice passages from his critical writings. In the tradition of H. L. Mencken's Chrestomathy, this is a Kostimathy. "A reader comparing his book with mine will notice immediately that my selections are much shorter, perhaps more aphoristic." Among the rubrics for his excerpts are Advice, Ambitions, Anarchism, Anthologies, Aphorisms, Architecture, Autobiography, Appreciations, Art Politics, Arts History, Avant-Garde, Book Art, Business, Conceptual Arts, Criticism Criticism, Cultural Criticism, Cultural History, Demolitions, Distinctions, Economics, Education, Editing, Elites & Pseudo-Elites, Elsewhere, Esthetics, Experience, Fiction, Film, Heroes, Historiography, Illustrative Anecdotes, Individuals Admired, Individuals Disparaged, Institutional Criticism, Interpersonal Intelligence, Judaism, Language, Literary Criticism, Literary Politics, Literary Sociology, Manifestoes, Music, New York City, Performance, Personal Independence, Poetry, Political Criticism, Publishing, Purposes, Radical Politics, Scholarship, Smarts, Social History, Sociology, Sociology of the Arts, SoHo, Sports, Standards, Theater Criticism, Travel, Video, and Visual Arts Criticism. No one reading X-Ray-K will come away with his mind intact. Contributor Bio:  Kostelanetz, Richard Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz's work in several fields appear in various editions of Wikipedia NNDB.com Britannica.com Who's Who in Hell Postmodern Fiction Contemporary Poets Who's Who in America Contemporary Novelists Who's Who in the World Who's Who in American Art Directory of American Scholars Advocates for Self-Government Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Who's Who in U. S. Writers, Editors, and Poets The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry The Facts on File Companion to 20th Century Poetry Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets The Chronology of Webster's Dictionary of American Writers The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry