KWMU Literary Profiles Radio Program

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St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU. 1985. “KWMU Literary Profiles Radio Program”. Gass Discussing Literature and Reading His Fiction. St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed March 5, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/16160

Title: KWMU Literary Profiles Radio Program
Description: Interview with William Gass for the KWMU radio program, "Literary Profiles." Interviewed by Lorin Cuoco, Gass discusses his childhood, education, interest in writing and reading, philosophy and literature, etc.
At the 10 minute mark Gass reads from Omensetter's Luck and discusses the book. At 15 minutes he discusses Habitations of the Word and essays in general. At 39 minutes he discusses The Tunnel. At 44 minutes he reads from In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. 
Date: 1985: October 2
Type: Interviews
Format: Sound Recording--Non-musical; 1 mp3 file; 160 kpbs; 00:56:11
Creator: St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU
Contributor: Lorin Cuoco
Language: English
Publisher: St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU
Relation: Gass Discussing Literature and Reading His Fiction; Graz Nord Amerika ‘82
Source: Modern Literature Recorded Multimedia Collection
Identifier: MSS124_0259_LiteraryProfiles-WilliamGass.mp3
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Subject: Gass, William H., 1924---Interviews.