Gass Discussing Literature and Reading His Fiction

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Washington University in St. Louis. 1971. “Gass Discussing Literature and Reading His Fiction”. Graz Nord Amerika ‘82, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/16180

Title: Gass Discussing Literature and Reading His Fiction
Description: William H. Gass discussing literature and reading excerpts of his fiction at the Person-To-Person Lecture Series in the Women's Building on Washington University in St. Louis campus. An unidentified speaker gives Gass a brief introduction. The recording is divided into four parts, roughly twenty minutes each. The question and answer period that followed is not included. Gass intersperses selections from his fiction in his lecture, to illustrate his topics. In part 1, Gass reads from "The Clairvoyant" (later published as a section of Cartesian Sonata); in parts 2-3, he reads from Omensetter's Luck; in part 3-4 he reads from In the Heart of the Heart of the Country; and in part 4 he reads from Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife.
Date: 1971: October 19
Type: Narratives
Format: Sound Recording--Non-musical; 4 mp3 files; 128 kbps; each 00:20:00
Creator: Washington University in St. Louis
Language: English
Relation: Graz Nord Amerika ‘82
Source: Modern Literature Recorded Multimedia Collection
Identifier: MSS124_0018_Gass_Lecture_Part1.mp3; MSS124_0018_Gass_Lecture_Part2.mp3; MSS124_0018_Gass_Lecture_Part3.mp3: MSS124_0018_Gass_Lecture_Part4.mp3
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Subject: Gass, William H., 1924---Lectures; Gass, William H., 1924---Readings.