Reading William Gass
US author William H Gass dies aged 93 | Fiction - The Guardian
It won Gass the American Book award. Gass in 1976 – 10 years into the writing of The Tunnel
“Honored by the Error”: The Literary Friendship of Gaddis and Gass
... William Gaddis or William Gass likely knows of their long friendship. They first met at the National Book Award ceremony on April 21, 1976—Gass ...
William H. Gass: How I Write - The Daily Beast
Three novels in 47 years—the books of William H. Gass aren't so much written as molted into dense, solid masterpieces. The latest, Middle C, ...
singing. And shall this reader, as the book is opened, shadow the page like a palm? yes, perhaps that would be best (mind the strain on ...
A Temple of Texts - William H. Gass - Complete Review
Gass, is less to convince the reader than to dazzle him with rhetorical excess." - Adam Kirsch, The New York Sun; "These essays prove that even the moribund ...
The Genius of William Gass | Sven Birkerts
” Try reading William Gass and then keeping him out of your own sentences. Stylistically it has been this way from the start in his fiction ...
Book Review: 'Middle C,' By William H. Gass - NPR
William H. Gass' fiction has been a secret handshake among brainy readers for years. Critics universally adored The Tunnel, his 1995 opus, ...
Till the Knowing Ends: On William Gass | The Nation
Whether you're reading his fiction or his nonfiction, expect to be continually surprised by Gass's rendering of the motion of thought. And it ...
'Interview with William H. Gass' interviewed by Chris Orlet
Does the word matter more than the medium? William Gass, the acclaimed author of 'The Tunnel' talks about book collecting, hidden treasures, and the current ...
William H. Gass' Finding a Form - Artforum
This is his fourth collection of essays on literature and philosophy, and it comes, surprisingly quickly, on the heels of the publication of The Tunnel.
Exploring the Literary World of William H. Gass | Arts & Sciences
He is the author of several books, including Omensetter's Luck (1966), In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories (1968), The ...
William Gass - London Review of Books
William Gass. William Gass taught philosophy at Washington University in St Louis. His many books include three novels: Omensetter's Luck (1966), The Tunnel ( ...
The Tunnel (novel) - Wikipedia
The Tunnel is a 1995 novel by the American author William H. Gass. The novel took 26 years to write and earned him the American Book Award of 1996, ...
Tag Archives: william gass - with hidden noise
But I found myself thinking about Gass's book when reading Thomas Browne in Libya: reading The Garden of Cyrus, it became entirely clear where Gass had taken ...
Featured Author: William H. Gass - The New York Times
REVIEWS OF WILLIAM H. GASS'S EARLIER BOOKS: 'Omensetter's Luck' (1966) "For his first novel William H. Gass couldn't have chosen a less ...
Many-Layered Anger: An Interview with William H. Gass - Tin House
One of the best pieces written about my book on Rilke [Reading Rilke]—which is, indeed, highly critical of me—is Coetzee's essay. He's smart, he ...
Stripping the Master of Kohler's Rags - The Tunnel at 25
These are only some of the correspondences between the author and his narrative creation, William Frederick Kohler. Gass anticipated readers who didn't know how ...
A Temple of Texts: Essays by William H. Gass - Identity Theory
In Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the fall of 2004, William H. Gass delivered a lengthy address as part of the Lannan Foundation's “Readings ...
My friend James and I spoke to Gass before his reading. James asked him about Frances Yates's The Art of Memory, a book I'd never heard of ...
William Gass' latest book is Middle C, the story of Joseph Skizzen, part-time musician, librarian, professor, Inhumanity Museum founder and keeper.