First four of seven pages of “The Master’s Voice: Henry James’s Curriculum Vitae” by William H. Gass, Harper’s Magazine (August 2008). Printed from harpers.org. The essay was later collected in Life Sentences.
“St. Louis Bound: A City of Parks and Churches and Neighborhoods, Neither East, Nor West, Nor North, Nor South, But a City as Human as a Ball Game, as Friendly as a Glass of Beer” by William H. Gass, Travel Holiday, September 1993
Stanley Elkin introduces Gass and then Gass delivers his essay "The Habitations of the Word" to an audience in the Hurst Lounge on the Washington University in St. Louis campus.
Recollections by William Gass about his time in the United States Navy during and immediately following World War II. Gass wrote the piece specifically for the "William Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence" digital exhibit.