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William H. Gass


William H. Gass on Art, Writing, Sentences, Reading, Literature, and ...

“Compel yourself to write several hours every day no matter how bad you feel. Eat well three times a day. Ceremoniously. Candles at dinner time.

US author William H Gass dies aged 93 | Fiction - The Guardian

Acclaimed writer of novels Omensetter's Luck and The Tunnel – and coiner of the term 'metafiction' – has died at home in Missouri.

William H. Gass's Advice for Writers: “You Have to be Grimly ...

Writing is a way of making the writer acceptable to the world—every cheap, dumb, nasty thought, every despicable desire, every noble sentiment, ...

The William H. Gass Reader - Penguin Random House

this collection is a peerless, essential celebration of literature—and an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to understand how great writing works.

The Radical Criticism of William Gass | The New Yorker

“Works of art,” William Gass, who died this week, at ninety-three, once wrote, “are governed by the question, 'Why this, rather than that?

William H. Gass | The New York Review of Books

William H. Gass (1924–2017) was an essayist, novelist, and literary critic. He grew up in Ohio and taught philosophy at Washington University. Among his books ...

William H. Gass - In the Heart of the Heart of the Country BOOK ...

Furious middle class data scientist working from home, not interacting with a single soul, on psych meds.

Gutenberg's Triumph: An Essay in Defense of the Book

by William H. Gass. I. When Ben Jonson was a small boy, his tutor, William Camden, persuaded him of the virtue of keeping a ...

William H. Gass - The Modern Novel

The Modern Novel · The world-wide literary novel from early 20th Century onwards · William H. Gass. Biography. William H. Gass was ...

Obituary: William H. Gass, professor emeritus, 93 - The Source

William H. Gass, the David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, died ...

William H. Gass - Cleveland Public Library

William H. Gass. William Howard Gass was an educator, essayist, critic, and novelist who valued form and language over plot and character. Known as a ...

William H. Gass - The Greatest Books

William Howard Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor.

William H. Gass - Kirkus Reviews

Books by William H. Gass · Please select an existing bookshelf · Create a new bookshelf · Please sign up to continue. · Almost there! · Sign in using your ...

Conversations with William H. Gass | University Press of Mississippi

Conversations with William H. Gass captures the imagination and philosophical acumen of one of America's most important aestheticians, critical theorists, ...

William H. Gass | Kenyon Review Author

William H. Gass, novelist, essayist, philosopher, and teacher, has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism twice. His nonfiction works include ...

Acclaimed Novelist William H. Gass To Be Honored as 40th Annual ...

He is currently working on a novel as well as a book of 17th century Baroque sermons and an essay for Harper's Magazine, where he has been a regular contributor ...

William H. Gass - Literature

Hoosier Connection: Gass was a professer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, from 1954 until 1969. He wrote a short story about life in a fictional ...

William H. Gass - Wikiquote

The Tunnel (1995) · Great undulating banners red as blood. And the brass bands. And the manly thud of uniformly set-down boots. And the rage inside the happy ...

The Readers: William H. Gass and Documenting the Self

Gass' work—metafictional, prodigious, and occasionally maddening—lends itself well to understanding our current literary moment. Gass, who ...

The William H. Gass Reader - The Brooklyn Rail

Gass toiled over diction, cadence of free modification, and the emergent properties of prose style. The William H. Gass Reader is a collection of crumbs ...