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William Gass on 12 of the Most Important Books in His Life


William Gass on 12 of the Most Important Books in His Life

William Gass on 12 of the Most Important Books in His Life, From Literary Criticism to "Books to go to bed with"

William Gass on 12 of the Most Important Books in His Life - Reddit

Under the Volcano should have been an entry among this 50. Imagine it as the roof. It took me three starts to get into it; my resistance to it ...

William H. Gass - Literary Hub

He is the author of seven works of fiction and nine books of essays, including Life Sentences, A Temple of Texts, and Tests of Time, and was a ...

Theory into Praxis: William H. Gass's Middle C | 12 Winters Blog

In writing criticism, Gass had to stay within the boundaries of expectation, he said, but for his fiction, which has been more important to him, ...

Let Us Now Praise William Gass's Greatest Work | 12 Winters Blog

Over those nearly three decades of its composition, Gass, as a writer of fiction, became identified with the project as excerpts of it appeared ...

William H. Gass - Wikipedia

He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics ...

Reading William Gass

Arriving almost a year after the American author's death, The William H. Gass Reader gathers more than 900 pages of philosophical essays, book ...

The Sentences of William H. Gass - Image Journal

Billed by David Foster Wallace as one of the five most “direly underappreciated” books of recent history, I was immediately intrigued. A few ...

In Search of William Gass - The Paris Review

The papers of Gass seemed immaculate, each box like a freshly dug pool. By comparison, the papers of Whitman and Woolf and David Foster Wallace ...

William H. Gass - Modern Literature Collection Authors

Gass' first novel, Omensetter's Luck, about life in a small town in Ohio in the 1890s, was published in 1966. Critics praised his linguistic ...

William H. Gass: Interviewed by Thomas LeClair — with John ...

Gardner: Bill Gass is quoted as saying that his ambition in life is to write a book so good that nobody will publish it. My ambition in life ...

Remembering William H. Gass: Resources for Exploring a Life in ...

The essay, “The High Brutality of Good Intentions”, on the work of Henry James, would appear in Gass's first essay collection Fiction and ...

Books by William H. Gass (Author of In the Heart of the ... - Goodreads

William H. Gass has 61 books on Goodreads with 196958 ratings. William H. Gass's most popular book ... The First Winter of My Married Life by William H.

William H. Gass, Acclaimed Postmodern Author, Dies at 93

William H. · Sentences have souls, he explained in an essay, and if they were good enough “it would be a crime on the world's part to let them ...

In Memory of William Gass (1924-2017), One of the Consummate ...

I've never encountered anyone who can so perfectly communicate the rapturous pleasure of reading books, actual physical texts. I encountered his ...

How to Read Like William Gass - Shaun Randol - Medium

William Gass — novelist, critic, philosophy professor — was a magnificent writer. As is the case with any giant of letters, he was also an ...

William H. Gass - VICE

Gass is the author of two well-wrought novels, Omensetter's Luck and The Tunnel, two collections of stories, Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas ...

William Gass | Time's Flow Stemmed

There are good and bad books, artistically and possibly ethically; There are also good and bad readers; “I've described my experience of reading ...

Troubling Company: On "The William H. Gass Reader"

Certainly Gass' complete work is topically diverse, and his voluminous essays (a good number of them anthologized in The William H. Gass Reader) ...

Gasstopia: William H. Gass and the Life Inside Language

As the years passed, Gardner went on to call Gass one of his all-time favorites (as did Donald Barthelme and many others), but wished there were ...