Richard Kostelanetz


Four Chapters from An Abstract Novel


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Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Webster’s Dictionary of American Authors, The HarperCollins Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, NNDB.com, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, among other distinguished directories. distinguished directories. Otherwise, he survives unemployed in New York, where he was born, from time to time applying for an appropriate university position.
 
 
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