Catherine Gass

Things Fall Apart (Achebe)

Maurice (Forster)

Love’s Work (Rose)

The William H. Gass Reader (Gass)

Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Marsh)

From William H. Gass's essay "What Freedom of Expression Means, Especially in Times Like These." Collected in Life Sentences.

Y hablando de cosas interesantes, La fuga publicó hace nada "La consagración de Aschenden", joya de orfebrería literaria del menos conocido de los posmodernos (o moderno decadente, como diría William H. Gass) americanos: Stanley Elkin. Libro pequeño para gozar con el brillo erótico del lenguaje.

Currently reading:

William H. Gass’ Cartesian Sonata.

#booksky

Just heard it is being published but I don’t have a date

Hummmm, this is news to me too. Horribly disappointing if it’s true.

The Tunnel is incredible and deserves to be more widely known

A collection by William H Gass entitled ‘In the Heart of the Heart of the Country’.

New book. After ‘The Tunnel’, I just want to read anything by Gass that I can get my hands on… #BookSky💙📚

think of a William H. Gass’ gem during my daily tuberide in the Wake: ‘It was like looking at a word until it melted’(p.18)—is there a better way to describe Wake’s thunderwords effect?

"rat tat they reduce us; executioners working anonymously away like ants about their beelike business, tat smiles sold as slaves, verbs rusting like old cars, a yearlong winter of shit like sleet from an asshole of ice...". William H. #Gass #TheTunnel #booksky

Robert Coover’s Outrageous 1977 Novel About U.S. Politics, Is Even More Relevant Now Robert Coover’s “The Public Burning” was met with bafflement and awe when it appeared in 1977. Reality has finally caught up to his masterpiece.

“It is a glorious, slam-bang, star-spangled #fiction,” the novelist William H. Gass wrote in an introduction to a 1998 edition, “and every awful word of it is true.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/b... #BookSky #novels #RobertCoover

It's a frightening day when we've caught up with William Gass.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/books/review/william-h-gass-tunnel-trumps-america.html

At long last have finished Omensetter’s Luck. Saw an interview with Gass and was disturbed to find that his speaking voice was like William H. Macy’s.

Respect to NYRB and Dalkey, “The Recognitions” should be printed on brownish thin paper, maintaining the original font and internal design, with an intro by William H Gass and a mint-green spine.

A black-and-white photo of writer William H. Gass, his hands clasped before him

"I was turned down for ten years... My writing went nowhere. I guess you have to be persistent. Talent is just one element of the writing business. You also have to have a stubborn nature. That’s rarer even than the talent, I think. You have to be grimly determined." -William H. Gass

Here’s the list of authors and titles from the image: 1. Exley, Frederick - Last Notes from Home 2. Williams, Joy - Escapes 3. Harington, Donald - The Cockroaches of Stay More 4. Gaitskill, Mary - Bad Behavior 5. Antunes, António Lobo - What Can I Do When Everything’s on Fire? 6. Weiss, Peter - The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I 7. Weiss, Peter - The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II 8. Gass, William H. - The Tunnel 9. Lowry, Malcolm - Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid 10. Russ, Joanna - The Hidden Side of the Moon 11. Bolaño, Roberto - Amulet 12. Bolaño, Roberto - The Savage Detectives 13. Hofstadter, Douglas R. - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Vacation pickupssss

Anything by William H. Gass being considered a commercially viable Pocket Books title is further evidence, if more was needed, that the past was a very, very different place. (Picture stolen from Twitter)

When your extended footnote suddenly turns to violent threat.
(William H Gass, ‘Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife’)

William H. Gass - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky

there were some valuable blogs, dedicating all their passion and obsession to writers like William Gaddis or William H. Gass, whose work had never received such attention and focus back in the unplugged days-
#Fresán24 #TheRememberedPart

Just finished ‘Bad Behaviour’ by Mary Gaitskill (loved) and am about to start ‘The Tunnel’ by William H. Gass (with a little Manga in the form of volume 4 of ‘20th Century Boys’ on the side). 👍#BookSky💙📚

Just finished William H Gass’ AMAZING ‘The Tunnel’. About 2/3 of the way through Percival Everett’s ‘James’ which is as impressive as you would expect from such a fine writer.

William H. Gass Centenary Celebration YouTube video by WashU Modern Literature Collection

William H. Gass Centenary Celebration

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQHG...

William H. Gass

Thanks for the invite!

I keep a couple of books of essays on the desk to pick up on slow afternoons, right now the topmost one is FICTION AND THE FIGURES OF LIFE by William H. Gass. I've dipped into it off and on over the years and it's always a pleasure. I love this guy.

William H. Gass is the only other author I've read who made me go "hang on, you can do that with the written word?"