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Setting copy of "Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers" by Stanley Elkin as published in Perspective, 1962. "Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers" was later published in a story collection of the same title in 1966.

Typescript draft of "Fiction and Society," a speech given by Stanley Elkin.

Press kit for Alex & The Gypsy directed by John Korty, 1976. Alex & The Gypsy was based on Stanley Elkin's novella "The Bailbondsman" from Searches and Seizures.

Typescript draft of "I Look Out For Ed Wolfe" by Stanley Elkin. Published by Esquire in their September 1962 issue, "I Look Out For Ed Wolfe" was Elkin's first big sale.

Folded single-sheet broadside, "A Prayer for Losers," by Stanley Elkin. This story was issued as part of a series of instructional tools by Behavioral Research Laboratories, 1966.

Typescript draft of an introduction for William H. Gass by Stanley Elkin.

Typescript [photocopy] of "Boss of the Bullies" by John Irving, an introduction to Stanley Elkin for Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits.

Typescript [photocopy] of "Introduction for Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits" by Robert Coover, circa 1980.

Typescript of Stanley Elkin's doctoral dissertation, Religious Themes and Symbolism in the Novels of William Faulkner, for a doctor of philosophy in English from the University of Illinois, 1961.

A collection of messages and inspirations from the Ferguson Resistance Movement

Audio: “Requiem for Mike Brown: Which Side are You On?” from the St. Louis Symphony Flash Mob

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