A reminiscence of Stanley Elkin & a one-on-one workshop session I was lucky enough to have.
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: On “The Bailbondsman”
If you’ve been following along with us here at Big Other, you know that in January we read and discussed…
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…
“Is Your Villain Appropriate?”—Examining Character Construction in Different Media
Every Monday, I read Mark Rosewater’s weekly column “Making Magic,” partly because I have a casual interest in the collectible…
For Your Consideration, Part II
From the essay “The Medium of Fiction” The purpose of a literary work is the capture of consciousness, and the…
New Gass Interview
When Greg Gerke told me that there was a new interview with William Gass, I, of course, was excited, only…
“Fat, too, fool, hey?” – The Mind in Morning (Snow in film)
Having just reread William Gass’s “The Pedersen Kid” yesterday morning, I decided to do a study of associations–what my brain…
Loving Lowell
Having just finished reading Lord Weary’s Castle, Robert Lowell’s second book of poetry, a collection consisting mainly of revisions of…
Gass-X
On a sunny day I would argue that the first 46 pages of William Gass’s Reading Rilke: Reflections of the…
Heart of Gass
On William H. Gass’s “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country” I have a strange little love affair…