Items

• William H. Gass by G. Michaels

  Portrait of William H. Gass by G. Michaels
• William H. Gass, Allan Ginsberg, and Arthur Miller in an elevator in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1985

  Photograph of Allen Ginsberg, William Gass and Henry Miller by Allen Ginsberg, taken in an elevator in the apartment house where Fyodor Dostoevsky lived, in St. Petersburg, Russia (then Leningrad, U.S.S.R.). Copyright © 1985, 2013 by Allen Ginsberg LLC, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
• Cassette tape cover for William Gass Interview with Kay Bonetti

  Cassette tape cover for William Gass Interview with Kay Bonetti, Columbia, MO: American Audio Prose Library, 1981
• Finding a Form - First Edition Dust Jacket

  First edition dust jacket for Finding a Form by William H. Gass, New York: Knopf, 1996
• Autograph letter signed from William H. Gass to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gass, September 2, 1945

  Autograph letter signed from William H. Gass to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gass, September 2, 1945.
• Washington University Founders Day 1974

  Washington University Founders Day program, 1974. William H. Gass received a faculty award.
• The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Ceremonial program, May 21, 1975

  The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Ceremonial program, May 21, 1975. William H. Gass received an Arts and Letters Award of the Academy-Insitute in Literature.
• “The Art of Self: Autobiography in an Age of Narcissism”

  Modern Literature Collection, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1994 issue featuring "The Art of Self: Autobiography in an Age of Narcissism" by William H. Gass. Published as "The Art of Self" in Harper's Magazine (May 1994) and as "Autobiography" in Finding a Form
• "The Statues"

  Proof of "The Statues" by William H. Gass as published in The New Yorker, December 5, 1977.
• "Marianne Moore’s Lexicon Compiled as a Companion to Her Complete Poems"

  "Marianne Moore’s Lexicon Complied as a Companion to Her Complete Poems" by William H. Gass. Created for the Philosophy and Literature Spring 1999 class during Gass’s final semester of teaching.
• “The Religion of Consciousness”

  Typescript draft and fragment pages of "The Religion of Consciousness" by William H. Gass. This was an essay on Katherine Anne Porter that was stolen and published by a fellow professor at Purdue University, the same professor who stole the Omensetterr's Luck typescript and attempted to publish it as a play.
• Typescript draft of “Sweets”

  Five pages from a printout draft of "Sweets," a fictional memoir published as "Sweet Things" in Harperr's Magazine (February 1992) and included in The Tunnel.
• A Defense of the Book covers

  Book covers for two editions of A Defense of the Book by William H. Gass. Designed by Ken Botnick. St. Louis, MO: Emdash, 2001 Published in Harper's Magazine (November 1999) and A Temple of Texts, New York: Knopf, 2006
• Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife cover

  Cover for Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1968 (TriQuarterly Supplement Number Two).
• In the Heart and the Heart of the Country dust jackets

  Dust jackets for various English and foreign language editions of In the Heart and the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass.
• Habitations of the Word - First Edition Dust Jacket

  First edition dust jacket for Habitations of the Word by William H. Gass, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.
• "The Cost of Everything" Purdue Readers advertisement with Purdue Exponent article affixed

  Advertisement for performance of "The Cost of Everything" by the Purdue Readers, with a Purdue Exponent article affixed. "The Cost of Everything" is a section from The Tunnel adapted for a multi-voice reading by Gass.
• Party of the Disappointed People (PdP) t-shirt

  Photographs of a Party of the Disappointed People (PdP) t-shirt created by Catherine and Elizabeth Gass for William H. Gass as represented in The Tunnel.
• “Proust at 100” - Typescript Drafts and Fragments

  Ten typescript draft and fragment pages of "Proust at 100." Published as "One Hundred Years of Proust" in The New York Times Book Review (July 11, 1971) and in The World Within the Word.
• Cassette tape cover for William Gass reading "The Old Folks"

  Cassette tape cover for William Gass Reading “The Old Folks” (short story) and The Tunnel (excepts) Columbia, MO: American Audio Prose Library, 1981