On the occasion of William H. Gass’s birthday, I’ve cherry-picked sentences from all of his books: a publishing career spanning…
John Matthew Fox’s “Literary Pillars”
1. Blood Meridianby Cormac McCarthy. I once suggested this as a fixture on high school reading lists and a principal…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass.
25 now, 25 to follow, with many thanks 1) In The Odyssey, there’s Penelope’s more intimate test of this stranger…
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William H. Gass, 2012
It’s probably too easy a move to begin my very brief remarks about Gass’s use of architecture as a metaphor…
Enter and Exit Strategies: My Literary Doors and Windows
It isn’t simply single books that have impacted my thinking, my writing, my thinking about writing, my writing about thinking,…
For Big Other on William H. Gass’s Birthday
If one tried to construct the Temple of Literature from only the fifty “pillars” below, it would collapse spectacularly. Nevertheless,…
William Walsh’s “Literary Pillars”
After examining three bookshelf walls in our home—one in the living room and two in the basement (one on the…
Tim Horvath’s “Literary Pillars”
The Top Five: As widely as my tastes ebb and flow, these five remain, stalwarts, five friends I want with…
Dan Wickett’s “Literary Pillars”
If this were truly an honest list, there’d be around 34 Dzanc titles and the other 16 titles would have…
Derek White’s “Literary Pillars”
1. Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You—Frank Stanford 2. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts—Amos Tutuola 3.…