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For Your Consideration IV – Gass/Stein/Music
“Why hadn’t I known long before reading Stein–was I such a dunce?–that the art was in the music–it was Joyce’s music, it was James’s music, it was Faulkner’s music; without the music, words fell to...
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Joy to the Reader When Reading Gass’s The Tunnel
How can I contain myself? (But perhaps the question is: how could Gass both contain and not contain himself to have done what he did?) Having had The Tunnel to go back to every morning was like having...
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Book Hunting in San Francisco: Wallace, Wallace Stevens
I love San Francisco. Especially the book stores and thrift stores. The Community Thrift Store in the Mission has been a goldmine for me the last six years and each time I come here I check in and...
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William H. Gass in NYC on Feb.22nd
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Robert Polito, The New School, William H. Gass
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A Medley of Gass Interviews and His Influence
Over at the Reading William Gass website, curated by Stephen Schenkenberg, a video has been unearthed of Gass talking in Paris about five years ago. He reads from The Tunnel for a short time–then...
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Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass.
25 now, 25 to follow, with many thanks 1) In The Odyssey, there’s Penelope’s more intimate test of this stranger who claims to be her husband — after he’s gotten through the messy, public business of...
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Big Other’s 50 Pillars, compiled
Me being me, I see vast amounts of data, and I want to analyze it! So here is something of a meta-list, compiled from all all the posts from 30 July. (Essentially, I made one big list, then saw who...
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Group Reading William H. Gass’s The Tunnel
FYI, Scott Esposito is leading a group reading of William H. Gass’s The Tunnel over at Conversational Reading. It’s three weeks in, goes until 3 November. Schedule’s here. Filed under: Uncategorized...
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Links
Helen DeWitt’s “Cormac McCarthy & the Semi-Colon” is about the travails of punctuation. Yes, editors are often always trying to add commas. The new great issue of The Quarterly Conversation has a...
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Hugh Kenner Hits a Home Run
Wouldn’t it take an outsider to aptly critique the American scene, the American people, the American culture? Hugh Kenner, a Canadian, did this at the end of a section devoted to Wallace Stevens and...
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For Your Consideration
Reading William H. Gass has set my mind to fire. In the essay “The Sentence Seeks Its Form” from A Temple of Texts, Gass speaks of breath as giving life to language: Breath (pneuma) has always been...
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For Your Consideration III – Birthday Wishes to Henry James
Henry (left) and brother William In the essay “In the Cage” (from Fiction and the Figures of Life), William Gass speaks about the fourth volume of Leon Edel’s five-volume biography of Henry James. Gass...
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Beginning to Dig into Gass’s The Tunnel (1 of 2)
Gass on history: “What counts for me…is what happens to human consciousness…what was lost when you piled up bodies, what is gained when you decide not to.” – Bookworm interview with Michael...
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