"Namedropping" is a slight but mostly absorbing collection.

"Namedropping" lives up to its title.

Elman died shortly before the publication of his memoir, Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs.

Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs (1998)

In Namedropping, Richard Elman writes a short chapter about a meeting with Kreymborg in the early 1960s.

The obsession with beauty is reflected in consistent namedropping; this satirizes (the main character) Victor's obsession with looks, and perhaps is indicative of the author's own attraction to glamor.

Pardon the namedropping, but he's known Garry since they were 9 and Penny since she was 6, he says, and oops, his lips are sealed about Mr. Pacino's legal matter.

His latest book, "Namedropping," of reflections on his life and work and the people he got to know, is due out in the spring at New York State University Press, his family members said.

Elman describes Winters as well as others he met and befriended at Stanford, such as the poet Thom Gunn and the writer, Tillie Olsen, in his memoir, Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs.

"Namedropping," directed by Marcia Jean Kurtz, delivers revealing anecdotes, too, about Richard Burton, Fay Wray, Mel Tormé, the producer Alexander H. Cohen, and George C. Scott, a generous benefactor of the Fortune Society.