Richard Kostelanetz
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Richard Cory Kostelanetz (14 May, 1940, New York City) is a prolific American artist, author and critic. He was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the composer Andre Kostelanetz. He is a passionate defender of the avant-garde. At one point, most famously, he sued the New York State Council on the Arts; it was headed, at the time, by his sister, Lucy Kostelanetz. Like a number of small press authors, Kostelanetz may have published too much. But wit and intelligence and good humor shine though a sometimes turbid sky. Too cranky to be beloved or even, sometimes, believed, he is nonetheless universally respected. He first sidled onto the literary scene with learned essays in quarterlies like The Hudson Review, then burst forth with glamorous profiles of older artists, musicians and writers for The New York Times; these profiles were collected in Master Minds. As he got older he got quirkier. He turned on his literary elders with The End of Intelligent Writing. How marginal can you get? "Gimmick" is his entry in The Poets' Encyclopedia. Among the anthologies of younger writers he has edited: Scenarios (1980) and The Literature of SoHo (1981). An excellent selection of his creative work can be found in Inside the Outside (2006). SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony (2003) evinces not the Latest but the Last.
Selected bibliography
- Master Minds (1970)
- In the Beginning (1971, novel)
- The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America (1974, criticism)
- Recyclings: A Literary Autobiography (1974)
- Unfinished Business: An Intellectual Nonhistory, 1963-89 (1990)
- Politics in the African-American Novel (1991, criticism)
- Published Ecomia 1967-91 (1991)
- On Innovative Art(ist)s (1992)
- Woodworks (1993)
- Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (1993)
- Minimal Fictions (1994)
- Crimes of Culture (1995)
- Ecco Kosti (1996)
- Opening (1996)
- Conversing with Cage (second ed., 2003), a collage of interviews with John Cage. Kostelantz on Cage is Kostelanetz at his best.
External links
- [RichardKostelanetz.com]
- [Pulley Press: Richard Kostelanetz]
- [Richard Kostelanetz Bibliography]
- [Deep Listening Catalogue: Richard Kostelanetz]
- [Poem by Richard Kostelanetz in Shampoo Issue 14]
- [COLLECTED STORIES - A Word with the Writer Richard Kostelanetz] by D. Albanese (2001)
- [Richard Kostelanetz: experimental prose - EPIPHANIES]
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