Two Tragedies & Two Comedies - Softcover

This single volume contains four books whose pages are entwined: 1) LIFEWORKS, which is the latest version of the author's famously humongous professional resume; 2) DEDICATIONS, collecting and identifying the subjects to whom the authors' works are dedicated; 3.) EIN DUMBKOPFBUCH, previously on line, in which the author reprints particularly ridiculously rejection letters that his work has received from a rich variety of literary gatekeepers; 4)NEGATIVE NOTICES, which reprints choice excerpts from negative printed reviews. Which books are comedies, which tragedies? Needless to say perhaps, this four-part essay in autobiography is radically different from any volume published before.

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. For over thirty years his Epiphanies have appeared in literary magazines.