William Gaddis to William H. Gass

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Gaddis, William. 1985. William Gaddis to William H. Gass. Contemporaries: William Gaddis, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed March 5, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/57538

Title: William Gaddis to William H. Gass
Description: The book jacket Gaddis refers to on this postcard is for his recently published novel, Carpenter’s Gothic, which cynically takes on the subject of evangelism in America. The letter Gaddis refers to is the one Gass wrote to the New York Times, also included in this exhibit.
Date: 1985: June 24
Type: Correspondence
Format: Postcard; jpeg files
Creator: Gaddis, William
Extent: 2 images
Language: English
Relation: Contemporaries: William Gaddis; International Writers Center: The Writer and Religion; William H. Gass and William Gaddis in 1994; 92nd St Y Unterberg Poetry Center Reading
Source: Accession: MS2024-026; Acquired from: Mary Gass
Identifier: ms2024-026-gaddis-007; ms2024-026-gaddis-008
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/