Wouldn’t it take an outsider to aptly critique the American scene, the American people, the American culture? Hugh Kenner, a…
Group Reading William H. Gass’s The Tunnel
FYI, Scott Esposito is leading a group reading of William H. Gass’s The Tunnel over at Conversational Reading. It’s three…
Big Other’s 50 Pillars, compiled
Me being me, I see vast amounts of data, and I want to analyze it! So here is something of…
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…
A Medley of Gass Interviews and His Influence
Over at the Reading William Gass website, curated by Stephen Schenkenberg, a video has been unearthed of Gass talking in…
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…
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…
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…
For Your Consideration
Reading William H. Gass has set my mind to fire. In the essay “The Sentence Seeks Its Form” from A…