A century after his birth, and nearly fifty years since he died, alone, in a midtown Manhattan hotel, Delmore Schwartz, briefly considered the great American poet, remains relatively unknown. Hailed by the likes of Nabokov, Eliot, Bellow and Trilling, Schwartz remains relatively absent from the Elysian Fields of the Forgotten Author: The syllabus. Not even…
Alex McElroy's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in
Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Diagram, Tin House, Memorious, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and more work can be found
here. He currently serves as the International Editor for
Hayden's Ferry Review.