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Her Sense of Timing (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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Best known as a novelist and frequently anthologized as a writer of short stories, Elkin also produced a significant body of work in a form, the novella, that most contemporary American writers have, perhaps for commercial reasons, avoided. That Elkin found the novella form so appealing is understandable, for it allowed him to combine the emphasis on situation and acute character that typifies his short stories with the spatial freedom of the novel so necessary to the development of his poetics of resentment and obsession.

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