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	William H. Gass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William H. Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic and former philosophy professor.
		Gass has cited the anger he felt during his childhood as a major influence on his work, even stating that he writes "to get even." Despite his prolific output, he has said that writing is difficult for him.
		William H. Gass is married to architect Mary Henderson Gass, author of "Parkview: A St. Louis Urban Oasis" 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_H._Gass (825 words)

	William H. Gass, 1924- . American author
		William Gass, born in Fargo, North Dakota, is one of the most critically acclaimed authors of fiction and critical prose writing today.
		Gass is equally important as a critic and his theory of fiction manifests itself in both his criticism and his fiction.
		The William Gass Papers consists largely of his own manuscript material: manuscripts and proof material toward his books, drafts of various stories, essays, and reviews, interviews, and a miscellaneous assortment of notes and other materials.
	library.wustl.edu /units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/gass/gass.html (323 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| William Gass
		William H. Gass was born in Fargo, North Dakota.
		In the first of three parts, Gass addresses literary matters and writers, and contemplates, among other things: the nature of narrative and its philosophical implications; experimental fiction and its importance; literary “lists” (including the currently controversial canon of western literature) and their use.
		In part two, Gass looks at social and political contretemps: the extent and cost of political influences on writers; the First Amendment, the Fatwa, and Salman Rushdie; our view of Germany, as in “How German are we?” Finally, Gass gives us a celebration of Flaubert and considers the problems of writing history.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/gass (229 words)

	William Gaddis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Gaddis (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist.
		Gaddis was born in Manhattan to William Thomas Gaddis, who worked "on Wall Street and in politics," and Edith Gaddis, an executive for the New York Steam Corporation.
		When he was 3, his parents separated and Gaddis was subsequently raised by his mother in Massapequa, Long Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Gaddis (822 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tests of Time: Essays: Books: William H. Gass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Gass is completely off the rails when he favours Rushdie over Solzhenitsyn, for instance, and while comparisions of that type are invidious, it does make one wonder about Gass' internal compass that he can completely sympathize with the first while absolutely denigrate the second.
		William Gass is a poor, sad, bitter intellectual who has the misfortune of being honest enough to carry his own tired philosophies to their inevitable conclusions: bitterness and nihilism.
		When Gass sticks to literature, or to commenting on the writer in the everyday world, through the ages, as he does in "The Writer and Politics: A Litany," he is scintillating and exciting.
	www.amazon.ca /Tests-Time-William-H-Gass/dp/0226284069 (2232 words)

	Our Land, Our Literature: Literature - William H. Gass
		Gass was a professer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, from 1954 until 1969.
		William H. Gass is a professor of philosophy and lived part of his life in Indiana.
		Gass is referring to a fictional town in this short story, but at the same time he is referring to all towns in Indiana.
	www.bsu.edu /ourlandourlit/Literature/Authors/GassWH.html (764 words)

	Lewis and Clark . Inside the Corps . The Corps . Patrick Gass \| PBS
		Gass provides in his December 24 and 25, 1804, journal entries, a poignant reflection of the spirit of the holiday season at Fort Mandan, on the remote frontier of the northern plains.
		Sergeant Gass was a competent carpenter, a skill with which he served the expedition invaluably in the construction of its three winter quarters: Camp Dubois (Illinois), 1803-1804; Fort Mandan (North Dakota), 1804-1805; and Fort Clatsop (Oregon), 1805-1806.
		Gass and two others were chosen by Lewis to assemble Lewis’ “experiment,” his iron boat frame that failed due to lack of proper materials to seal the seams of its elk and buffalo hide hull covering.
	www.pbs.org /lewisandclark/inside/pgass.html (668 words)

	Basking in Hell: Returning to The Tunnel
		Continuing on illustrative matters, Gass addressed what he called the "PDP Particle," a structure of four Os connected by an X that is supposed to signify Kohler's "Party of the Disappointed People." "The meaning is deliberately left ambiguous," Gass wrote about the emblem.
		Gass wrote the "Twelve Philippics" in response, in an effort to articulate the importance of the overall structure.
		William Gass may be personally drawn to the visual, both as a narrative tool and as a subject itself.
	esposito.typepad.com /TQC_6/Tunnel_Gass.html (2504 words)

	Reading Rilke - William H. Gass
		Gass repairs the arteries between the heart and the mind and the mouth and the hand, giving them new flexibility and vigor.
		Gass is especially good in his analysis of the complex man and poet that Rilke was.
		There is also much reflection on the the problems of translation, though Gass' focus is not solely on this (or rather his conception of what must be brought to a translation is so overarching that a great deal of material is brought in that most might not directly consider a "problem of translation").
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/gasswh/readingr.htm (1951 words)

	Olden Daze - Sgt. Patrick Gass
		Gass and Sgt. John Ordway were in Capt. Russell Bissell's company of the First Infantry, stationed at Fort Kaskaskia in the fall of 1803 when Capt. Meriwether Lewis came in search of volunteers for an expedition to the Pacific Coast.
		Gass was wounded, whether in this charge or later in the battle is not known today, but he lost the sight of one eye as a result.
		William Gass was drowned many years ago in the Ohio River, and James Gass died at his home in Walker, Missouri in 1907.
	www.gesswhoto.com /olden-daze/index17.html (2325 words)

	Late Night Live - 24 October 2002 - William Gass - in conversation
		William H. Gass is one of America's most distinguished and best known writers, thinkers, and scholars.
		Gass is also a collector of books - and has over 15,000 in his home in St Louis.
		Gass has has just retired from the directorship of the International Writers Centre at Washington University, Missouri, where he was also the David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities - with an expertise in Greek philosophy.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/latenightlive/stories/2002/710208.htm (184 words)

	Sample Briefs and Memoranda
		On August 18, 1998, the plaintiff, William J. Gass, Jr., filed a complaint in the Superior Court against the defendant, Kathleen Gass, On September 9, 1998, the defendant filed an answer to the plaintiff's complaint, counterclaims, and demand for a jury trial.
		That son is the plaintiff, William Gass, Jr.
		William Gass, Jr., acknowledged that, like the 1998 will, a will executed by his father in 1991 did not name him as a beneficiary.
	www.criminalappeals.com /GassBrief.html (3186 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Tunnel: Livres en anglais: William H. Gass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		In this endless ramble of a novel, Gass (Omensetter's Luck; In the Heart of the Heart of the Country), though here, as always, possessed of a bewitching and spectacularly fluid and allusive style, fails to find a suitable home for his narrator's wickedly dyspeptic views of history, marriage and culture.
		William Kohler is a Midwestern academic historian working on an introduction to his life's work-a massive study of "guilt and innocence in Hitler's Germany." This, however, and the fact that Kohler begins to secretly dig a tunnel out of his basement, are the only shards of plot in this otherwise formless book.
		Gass, as readers of his fiction and gorgeous literary essays will know (On Being Blue), can turn a phrase and render lyrical descriptions that have not only music to them, but also shape and weight.
	www.amazon.fr /Tunnel-William-H-Gass/dp/1564784487 (539 words)

	Eastgate: sticky fingers
		William Gass issued the latest sortie in a recent issue of Harper's Magazine, arguing that "words on the screen" (his phrase) cannot compete with the pleasures of paper-and-ink textuality, because digital media do not record the serendipitous events that can occur in individual readings.
		Against philistines in mass media, Gass poses as enlightened defender of the young and the hapless, who must be protected from mass media commercialism's mind-rotting effects.
		Naturally, Gass may be as irritatingly paternalist as he likes, but he misses the point by implying that new media forms are just like TV.
	www.eastgate.com /HypertextNow/archives/Gass.html (577 words)

	William Gass
		William Gass was born in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1924.
		With this »essay-novella« Gass began his magnum opus, »The Tunnel«, which was completed thirty years later, in 1995.
		Gass has been conferred five honorary doctorates and was Director of the International Writers Center of Washington University from 1990 to 2000.
	www.literaturfestival.com /bios1_3_6_791.html (464 words)

	St. Louis Walk of Fame - William Gass
		A consummate author with a philosopher's training, William Gass joined the Washington University faculty in 1969 and received an endowed chair in 1979.
		Gass introduced audiences to his polished, energetic prose with the 1966 novel Omensetter's Luck and the classic book of short stories In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.
		A distinguished artist deeply concerned with the issues writers face, William Gass was named director of the International Writers Center in 1990.
	www.stlouiswalkoffame.org /inductees/william-gass.html (104 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: William H. Gass
		Gass has his antihero ponder the significance of everything from his obesity and small penis to the poetry of Rilke, the subjectivity of history, and the nature of depravity in a narrative that is both virtuosic and indulgent."--Booklist
		In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader.
		To my mind, Gass here proves that straight, rectilinear prose is no longer sufficient for the writer who wants to discuss the spirit of the age with the people most aware of it.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/gass.html (1403 words)

	Q&A with William H. Gass - The Boston Globe
		Gass, when I approached him, was wearing a red bow tie and a blue suit and was lounging in his Park Avenue penthouse."' It was a late Sunday afternoon-the lounging hour-and William Gass was speaking on the phone from his...
		Gass, when I approached him, was wearing a red bow tie and a blue suit and was lounging in his Park Avenue penthouse."' It was a late Sunday afternoon-the lounging hour-and William Gass was speaking on the phone from his home in St. Louis.
		GASS: A writer doesn't need to be as interested in philosophical theory as I am to have a philosophically organized point of view.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/02/19/qa_with_william_h_gass (1088 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		William Gass may well be our greatest living writer.
		Gass first achieved fame thirty years Ago with the publication of the short story collection In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (Harper and Row, 1968).
		William Frederick Kohler, the narrator, is a middle‑aged professor of history who has recently finished writing his masterpiece: Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany.
	www.gadflyonline.com /archive/December98/archive-gass.html (2390 words)

	William Gass wins major literary award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Both Gass and Elkin are two-time winners of the award.
		Gass, who was unable to attend the ceremony, said in a written statement:
		Gass joined Washington University in 1969 as a professor of philosophy in Arts and Sciences.
	record.wustl.edu /archive/1997/03-27-97/8504.html (570 words)

	Arizona Quarterly (Spring 1992) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		For Gass, it is not sequence but juxtaposition that makes a set of ideas into a system; and for that matter, he sees concepts themselves as things that "exist all at once, and the model for existence 'at the same time' is spatial" (LeClair, "Conversation" 102).
		In order to understand why Gass has elected to commit himself so exclusively to the spatial model, and why he chose to do so in a work that addresses itself thematically to the subversion of historical narratives, it is necessary to consider the lessons he learned from his first novel.
		Gass is not at all reluctant to say that he wants his readers to under- stand his books in a certain way, but he wants those books to be seen as containing within themselves the mechanism by which reading is controlled:
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /~jmu2m/arizona.quarterly.48:1.html (6487 words)

	Finding a Form: Essays - PowerBookSearch!
		Gass (The Tunnel, LJ 1/95), the head of the International Writers Center at Washington University, is "as obdurate as nails" when it comes to the best possible use of the written word.
		Gass shines when he addresses the subject most befitting a self-described ``Methodologist,'' one ``for whom the medium is the muse''--his own prose medium itself.
		Gass shines when he addresses the subject most befitting a self-described "Methodologist," one "for whom the medium is the muse"—his own prose medium itself.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0679446621.html (1461 words)

	Gass Attack by James Wolcott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Perhaps this is the proper moment to pause and note that, in his acknowledgments, Gass thanks the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Purdue Research Foundation, Washington University, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities for their “generous assistance.” Great work, guys.
		The irony is that when Gass first discussed The Tunnel, he struck the defiant pose of the lone, proud artist camped in his foxhole, determined to buck the philistines and go against the American grain.
		With the forks.” Gass scorns realism (it’s not inward or language-intensive enough for him), yet this is the only scene in the entire 650-page novel that seems to be honestly happening before our eyes and not intermediatied through musty filters of modernist funk or buried under the dead paw of the past.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/13/feb95/gass.htm (2134 words)

	An Interview With William Gass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Gass: What Wittgenstein taught me in that short period was not so much any of his conclusions or ideas, which I was thoroughly familiar with before I ever saw him; it was his involvement, his commitment to his meaning.
		Gass: What I mean by that is that a great many philosophical theories about the world seem to me false, but if you take them and apply them to the made-up worlds of fiction, they're often true.
		Gass: We must try to get people to think further than their guts and genitals—to appreciate values—but this can be done best only in the primary and secondary schools.
	www.adfl.org /ade/bulletin/N070/070030.htm (3860 words)

	identity theory \| books \| a temple of texts: essays by william h. gass
		There are other reviews as well, and their rewards for the reader are informational—we learn a great deal about the authors and the times in which the books were born—as well as critical and interpretive; Gass’s ability to distill a book’s essence is matched by few.
		For Gass, though religion is always inferior to truth and reason, the subject itself is fascinating.
		Gass prefaces this piece’s inclusion here with a short essay called “Influence,” intended to encourage readers not to view the Temple as a best-books list, but as a collection of those books that at that time had influenced him.
	www.identitytheory.com /lit/schenkenberg_gass.php (2103 words)

	Marjorie Perloff on Rilke
		As for Gass himself, one assumes that as a student of philosophy he must have learned German at college, but nothing in his book suggests that he is in any way at home in the language.
		Gass clearly identifies with this mood, identifies with the strength of a desire that is repeatedly doomed to failure, especially since, like Rilke, he seems to believe that there is no art without the spark of love and that it is art that matters.
		William Gass, himself an ambitious and wide-ranging novelist, short story writer, philosopher, and literary critic, has managed to tap into that ambition, embodied in the question to the Young Poet which I cited earlier: "Would [you] have to die if it were denied you to write?"
	epc.buffalo.edu /authors/perloff/articles/rilke.html (5439 words)

	William Gass will deliver Spriestersbach lecture at UI Museum of Art - University News Service - The University of Iowa
		IOWA CITY, Iowa -- William H. Gass, director of the International Writers' Center at Washington University in St. Louis, will deliver the annual Bette Spriestersbach Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 11, in the University of Iowa Museum of Art.
		Gass was born in Fargo, N.D., in 1924 and was educated at Kenyon College and Cornell University.
		Gass' novels and essays include "The Habitations of the Word: Essays," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 1985, and "The Tunnel," which won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation.
	itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu /uns-archives/1997/february/0221gass.html (363 words)

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