King of the Bingo Game | Critical Overview
Because a collection of Ellison's short stories has not yet been published, these works have received very little critical attention in comparison to the large body of criticism that has grown up around his novel Invisible Man. For years the stories were difficult to find; they appeared in small magazines and few were anthologized. Consequently, criticism of "King of the Bingo Game'' tends to focus more on the story's relationship to Invisible Man than on the story's position in Ellison's short story oeuvre.
As a precursor to Invisible Man, however, ''King of...
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