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“On Experimental Writing: Some Clues for the Clueless” - Corrected Printout Draft
Faxed, corrected printout draft of the essay, “On Experimental Writing: Some Clues for the Clueless,” published in The New York Times Book Review, August 21, 1994. Essay was reprinted/revised as "Anywhere But Kansas" in:The Iowa Review,…
"The Masques of the Self" - Autograph Draft
Autograph draft fragments titled "The Masques of the Self," eventually published as "The Art of Self: Autobiography in an Age of Narcissism," Harper's Magazine, May 1994, reprinted inThe Best American Essays of 1994, reprinted and translated into…
The World Within the Word - Setting Copy
The first 159 pages of the setting copy ofThe World Within the Word. Includes the title and credit pages, and the first five essays: "The Doomed in their Sinking" (p. 1-17), "Malcom Lowery" (p. 18-46), "Wisconsin Death Trip" (p. 47-54), "Mr. Blotner,…
Dandy & Fine, Accent to Ascent - Exhibition Catalog
A catalog to commemorate the April 5, 1989 opening of an exhibition in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library at the University of Illinois, entitled Dandy & Fine, Accent to Ascent (1940 - ):Correspondence on the Occasions of Work…
"The Case of the Obliging Stranger"
"The Case of the Obliging Stranger," reprint from The Philosphical Review, Volume LXVI, Number 2 (April 1957). Collected in Fiction and the Figures of Life.
"Editor Bill Gass Waxes Baconian With an Essay...On Reading"
"Editor Bill Gass Waxes Baconian With an Essay...On Reading," essay by William H. Gass for his high school newspaper, The Cauldron, circa 1942.
"From Some Ashes No Bird Rises" - Review of Phoenix and Phoenix II by D.H. Lawrence
First page of a two-page clipping of "From Some Ashes No Bird Rises" essay by William H. Gass, reviewingPhoenix and Phoenix II by D.H. Lawrence.
Typed manuscript of “Proust at 100”
Typed manuscript of “Proust at 100.” Published as “One Hundred Years of Proust” in The New York Times Book Review (July 11, 1971) and in The World Within the Word.
"Cupples Station: A Tale of Unrequited Love"
“Cupples Station: A Tale of Unrequited Love” by William H. Gass, Gateway Heritage, Volume 18, Number 1 (Summer 1997).
"Abstractions Arrive: Having Been There All the Time"
Abstractions Arrive: Having Been There All the Time. Essay by William H. Gass. Photographs by Michael Eastman, October 2009. Published as an iPad ebook, 2012.