Walter Abish to William H. Gass

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Abish, Walter. 1984. Walter Abish to William H. Gass. William Gaddis, Donald Barthelme, and Walter Abish in West Berlin, Germany, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed March 5, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/57536

Title: Walter Abish to William H. Gass
Description: Austrian-born fiction writer Walter Abish is often categorized with Gass as a “postmodernist,” and while Gass would contest that label, he often mentioned Abish as a kindred writer. In this letter, one can see how much Abish likewise admired Gass as a writer and valued him as a friend.
Date: 1984: November 2
Type: Correspondence
Format: Paper; jpeg file
Creator: Abish, Walter
Extent: 1 page
Language: English
Relation: William H. Gass, Robert Coover, Mary Gass, Walter Abish, Ceile Gelb, and Shelly Barth in New York, circa 1983-84; Walter Abish and William H. Gass in Graz, Austria
Source: Accession: MS2024-026; Acquired from: Mary Gass
Identifier: ms2024-026-abish-001
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/