Chejfec Through the Looking Glass There are those who would argue that a translator should avoid reading the text or…
Joy to the Reader When Reading Gass’s The Tunnel
How can I contain myself? (But perhaps the question is: how could Gass both contain and not contain himself to…
Gary Lutz Interview
Gary Lutz, a masterful prose stylist, is the author of three short-story collections: Stories in the Worst Way, I Looked…
For Your Consideration IV – Gass/Stein/Music
“Why hadn’t I known long before reading Stein–was I such a dunce?–that the art was in the music–it was Joyce’s…
Guest Post: Eric Beeny reviews Carol Novack’s Giraffes in Hiding
Review of Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack by Eric Beeny Giraffes in Hiding is Carol Novack’s first…
Guest Post: W.F. Lantry Remembering Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin: Fiction as a Form of Mathematics By W.F. Lantry So there I was, just inside the Beltway, watching…
Guest Post: Hilma Wolitzer on Stanley Elkin
It was such glorious fun to be Stanley Elkin’s friend as well as his reader. He was always wonderfully irreverent…
Beginning to Dig into Gass’s The Tunnel (1 of 2)
Gass on history: “What counts for me…is what happens to human consciousness…what was lost when you piled up bodies, what…
For Your Consideration III – Birthday Wishes to Henry James
In the essay “In the Cage” (from Fiction and the Figures of Life), William Gass speaks about the fourth volume…
Reader Rage, Henry James Hate
To start, we have two simmering, searing proclamations: In A Temple of Texts, William Gass quoted Arnold Bennett’s book, Literary…