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“By the Mouth for the Ear”— William Gass on Good Writing
More from The Paris Review’s vaults. In an interview from 1977, William Gass weighs in on the oral/aural aspects of literature– I think contemporary fiction is divided between those who are still...
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William Gaddis Fiction-to-Music Entelechy Transducer — Gregg Williard
“Gaddis Fiction-to-Music Entelechy Transducer” by Gregg Williard (More graphs/via). Tagged: Art, Diagram, Don DeLillo, Fiction to Music Transducer, Gregg Williard, Jonathan Lethem, Philip K Dick, The...
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William H. Gass Reads from His Novel The Tunnel (Video)
So this weekend I started auditing William Gass’s novel The Tunnel on mp3, read by the author: Sonorous, strange, ugly, beautiful, poetic, abyssal, phallic, anal, fragmented, rich. Here he is in 2007...
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William Gass: “Ways of Reading Are Adversaries”
William Gass, in his 1977 Paris Review interview— INTERVIEWER Is the reader an adversary for you? GASS No. I don’t think much about the reader. Ways of reading are adversaries—those theoretical ways....
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The Pennants of Passive Attitudes and Emotions (William H. Gass)
(From William Gass’s 1995 novel The Tunnel; The Quarterly Conversation will lead a Big Read of The Tunnel starting next week). Tagged: Images, The Tunnel, William Gass, William H. Gass
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KCRW Bookworm’s Michael Silverblatt with William Gass (1998)
Tagged: lannan foundation, Michael Silverblatt, William Gass
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Books Acquired (1.8.2015)
I am taking a class titled 21st-Century Fiction: What Is The Contemporary? and three of the books in this photograph are part of the reading list. Absent titles are by Dan Chaon, Kathryn Davis, Ben...
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No great book is explicable (William Gass)
No great book is explicable, and I shall not attempt to explain this one. An explanation–indeed, any explanation–would defile it, for reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers,...
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William Gaddis’s J R (A short riff on a long book)
1. I reread William Gaddis’s 1975 novel J R this February and, as is usually the case with a reread, I was pleasantly unsurprised by all its unremembered surprises—the jokes and japes, riffs and...
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Stanley Elkin and William Gass on the mythic mode, Faulkner, etc.
From Washington University’s marvelous Modern Literature Collection YouTube channel. Tagged: Literature, Stanley Elkin, William Faulkner, William Gass
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Faulkner/Gass (Two Williams acquired, 4 Oct. 2019)
Friday is a day in which I have a few rare spare hours to myself after lunch, and I often like to browse my beloved labyrinthine used bookstore in one of those hours. Last week, I managed to leave...
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Photograph from “The Postmodernists Dinner”— Jill Krementz
Photograph from “The Postmodernists Dinner,” 1983 by Jill Krementz (b. 1940) From the University of Houston’s collection of Barthelme’s papers. The entry’s description: Left to right: unidentified,...
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Another Postmodernists Dinner
I’ve written about the so-called “Postmodernist Dinner” on this blog before. The 1983 dinner was organized and hosted by Donald Barthelme, and attended by John Barth, William Gaddis, Kurt Vonnegut,...
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John Barth’s brief description of Donald Barthelme’s so-called postmodernist...
Photograph from “The Postmodernists Dinner,” 1983 by Jill Krementz (b. 1940) In John Barth’s 1989 New York Times eulogy for Donald Barthelme, Barth gives a brief description of two so-called...
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John Barth’s brief description of Donald Barthelme’s so-called postmodernist...
Photograph from “The Postmodernists Dinner,” 1983 by Jill Krementz (b. 1940) In John Barth’s 1989 New York Times eulogy for Donald Barthelme, Barth gives a brief description of two so-called...
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