*Author’s most famous book, Mulligan Stew, is regarded as a masterpiece of comic genius; *The author has a devoted following for his reputation as a virtuoso of avant-garde literature; *Sorrentino’s work has appeared in Harper’s Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, Chicago Review, The New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, and many more publications; *Author has taught creative writing at Stanford since 1982; book will do well in academic and literary markets; *The author compares Little Casino to William Carlos Williams’s Kora in Hell:Improvisations.