William Gass on "Poetic License," KPFK

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KPFK. 1992. “William Gass on ‘Poetic License,’ KPFK”. William Gass Interview at LAX Airport. Presented at the, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/57494

Title: William Gass on "Poetic License," KPFK
Description: This radio interview was done before Gass spoke at the Lannan Foundation Literary Reading Series on January 21, 1992, when he was a visiting scholar at the Getty Institute in Los Angeles. He talks with Jay Kugelman of the Poetic License radio show about many topics related to The Tunnel which he was working on finishing at the Getty.; On this clip Gass discusses visual aspects of his upcoming book, The Tunnel, and the changing nature of text's relationship to book and reader with the author being involved in experimental design. He previews his Lannan reading/talk and eagerness to finish The Tunnel, explaining how he identifies with Malcolm Lowery over a long-gestating novel. He then identifies Borges and other writers (Joyce, Stein, Barth, Abish, Coover) who had characters writing imaginary manuscripts, such as with Gass and William Kohler.
Date: [1992: January]
Type: Sound Recording
Format: Audio Cassette; mp3 file
Creator: KPFK
Extent: Selection: 06min 16sec; Tape: 17min 38sec
Language: English
Relation: William Gass Interview at LAX Airport
Source: Accession: MS2024-001; Acquired from: Mary Gass
Identifier: ms051-cass1338-acc-20240626_selection
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/