I sat in the library today writing and reading. A rank odor would intermittently hit me, and I didn’t know…
Colors and Such
After Shya Scanlon’s reading tonight (which I thought was a tremendous success) I spoke with the recently debearded David Peak (and no,…
Thinking About Poets Writing Fiction
I finished reading Michael Hulse’s new translation of Rilke’s anguished novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge this past Valentine’s…
William Gass & Radiohead
Below are examples of incomparable artists eviscerating, in an eerily similar way, our consumerist society, or, as bell hooks put…
William Gass at The Millions
William Gass is included in the “A Year in Reading” feature at The Millions. He writes about Rose Macaulay’s Pleasure…
An Essay on William Gass’s “The Pedersen Kid”
Check out “Let Me Make a Snowman: John Gardner, William Gass, and “The Pedersen Kid,’” an essay by Nick Ripatrazone that…
The Page 99 Test
I first learned about the page 99 test from William Gass (I’ve forgotten where) who I think got it from…
Break Every Rule, Part 1
Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule is a quiet, elegant book of essays. Every sentence here is a gem. Remember that…