NON-FICTION

Namedropping
Mostly Literary Memoirs
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998)

These are Richard Elman’s candid snapshots in prose of the various, mostly literary celebrities he encountered during his four decades as a working writer and journalist—among them Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, Faye Dunaway, Hunter S. Thompson, and other important artists and writers who were Elman’s teachers and, occasionally adversaries. Engagingly written and never superficial, these portraits and anecdotes in many cases strike to the center of each subject’s art. To many readers, these persons are just “names”’ Elman brings them to life while never simplifying or overdramatizing their work.

Cocktails at Somoza's
(Cambridge, MA: Applewood Books, 1981)

Uptight with the Rolling Stones
A Novelist's Report
(New York: Scribner, 1973)

Ill-at-Ease in Compton
(New York: Pantheon, 1967)

The Poorhouse State
The American Way of Life on Public Assistance
(New York: Pantheon, 1966)

For a copy of the manuscript, “The Aesthetics of the CIA,” quoted in The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders (New Press. NY, 1999), contact AElman@literati.net

TRANSLATIONS

Menander
The Grouch, Desperately Seeking Justice, Closely Cropped Locks, The Girl from Samos, and the Shield
eds. David R. Slavitt and Palmer Bovie
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)

Euripedes, 3
Alcestis, Daughters of Troy, The Phoenician Women, Iphigenia at Aulis, and Rhesus
eds. David R. Slavitt and Palmer Bovie
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)

FICTION

Love Handles
(Los Angeles, CA: Green Integer Press)

Tar Beach
(Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1991)

Disco Frito
(Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1988)

The Menu Cypher
(New York: Macmillan, 1982)

The Breadfruit Lotteries
(New York: Methuen, 1980)

Little Lives
(Under the pseudonym John Howland Spyker)
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978)

Crossing Over and Other Tales
(New York: Scribner, 1973)

Fredi & Shirl & The Kids
(New York: Scribner, 1972)

An Education in Blood
(New York: New York, Scribner, 1971)

The Reckoning
(New York: Scribner, 1969)

Lilo's Diary
(New York: Scribner 1968)

The 28th Day of Elul
(New York: Scribner, 1967)
(London: Hutchinson, 1967)

A Coat for the Tsar
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958)

NOVELIZATIONS

Smokey and the Bandit
(written under the pseudonym Delmar Hanks)

The Gangster Chronicles
(written under the pseudonym Michael Lasker, with Richard A. Simmons)

Taxi Driver
(with Paul Schrader)
(New York: Bantam Books, 1976)

POETRY

Love, Richard
Last Poems and Translations
(New York: Junction Press)

Cathedral - Tree - Train
and Other Poems
(New York: Junction Press, 1992)

In Chontales
(Port Jefferson, NY: Street Press, 1980)

Homage to Fats Navarro
(New York: New Rivers Press, 1978)

The Man Who Ate New York
(New York: New Rivers Press, 1975)