Literary Nonfiction. Cultural Studies. A heavyweight confronting sanctified elephants, the impossibly prolific anarchist and libertarian cultural critic targets, with dead-on accuracy and quotable wit, Andy Warhol, Harold Bloom, The New Yorker, Barack Obama, Dubya and his sidekicks, Susan Sontag, The New York Times Book Review, Marjorie Perloff, Charles Bernstein, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Victims of Literary Bullying, Pushcart Prize anthologies, The Readers' Catalog, the New York Yankees, Idiot-Identifiers, Manuscript Filchers, Literary Correspondence, Paul Muldoon, scores more, often slash and burn.

Author Hometown: NEW YORK CITY, NY USA



About the author: Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz's work in several fields appear in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Art, NNDB.com, Wikipedia.com, and Britannica.com, among other distinguished directories. Otherwise, he survives in New York, where he was born, unemployed and thus overworked.