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• Cityscape Segment, 2011

  This Cityscape program with guests Lorin Cuoco, William Gass and Phillip Barnes promoting the "Do Thy Will" benefit featuring reading of Shakespeare sonnets. Cuoco, Gass and Barnes read examples and explain the importance of Shakespeare, the components of a sonnet, and the history of the form.
• Cityscape Segment, 2010

  This segment from the Cityscape radio program promoted the "Published and Perished" benefit for the St. Louis Poetry Center. Gass and Cuoco explain the event, their Literary St. Louis book from 2001, the poets who will be read at benefit, poetry's reach, and more.
• William H. Gass Symposium: International Writing - Program

  Program for the William H. Gass Symposium: International Writing held at Washington University on September 23, 2016 with remarks by Susan Bernofsky, Lorin Cuoco, Matthias Göritz, Ignacio Infante, Stephen Schenkenberg, Lynne Tatock and Gerhild Williams. The event also featured Rilke readings in translation and readings by poets in the International Writers Track.
• William H. Gass Symposium – Lorin Cuoco’s Remarks

  Cuoco delivered a talk about the International Writers Center and participated in a discussion with Stephen Schenkenberg at the William H. Gass Symposium: International Writing conference at WashU on September 23, 2016. Cuoco, a close friend and collaborator, also spoke at the Gass tribute in 2018.
• Joy Williams' Untitled Gass Tribute Remarks

  Joy Williams, esteemed writer and longtime Gass friend whose papers also reside in the Modern Literature Collection, donated a typescript of her remarks at the “William H. Gass: His Life and Legacy” event.
• William H. Gass: His Life and Legacy

  On April 6, 2018, Washington University hosted a celebration of William H. Gass, who had died the previous December. Speakers included Kathryn Davis, Matthias Goeritz, Garth Risk Hallberg, Joy Williams and Mark Wrighton, and Special Collections hosted an open house of the William H. Gass Papers and International Writers Center Archive.
• 92nd St Y Unterberg Poetry Center Reading

  Gass and Gaddis first met at the National Book Award Ceremony in 1976 and were close friends until Gaddis’s death in 1998. Gaddis was much more reticent than Gass to give readings or talks but he made exceptions when his friend was involved in some way.
• 52nd Annual Literary Awards Banquet

  Gass was a popular lecturer as well as reader. He participated in hundreds of speaking engagements like this one at campuses and other locations across the United States and internationally.
• Spirit of Place: 6th Annual UND Writers Conference

  The annual Writers Conference at the University of North Dakota boasted some especially illustrious names in the literary world in 1975. Gass read “We Have Not Lived the Right Life” from The Tunnel, and participated in a public interview alongside John Barth and Ishmael Reed.
• The Writer's Forum, 10th Anniversary Season, Fall 1977

  State University of New York College at Brockport featured Gass in their Writers Forum series to read from The Tunnel—which he was “completing” at the time—as well as other works.
• “The Cost of Everything” Poster

  In 1972, the Purdue Readers performed "The Cost of Everything," a section from The Tunnel adapted by Gass as a multi-voice reading. Gass taught philosophy at Purdue University for 13 years before coming to WashU in 1969.
• Susan Sontag Lecture Poster

  Mary Gass designed and printed this poster for a 1985 reading by and discussion with Susan Sontag on the WashU campus as part of the Philosophy & Literature Lecture series. Like Gass, Sontag was a fiction writer, critic, and public intellectual. The two were longtime mutual admirers.
• Party Invitation in Honor of John Hawkes

  Bill and Mary Gass hosted receptions at their home following the Philosophy and Literature readings at WashU. This invitation, like others, was designed and printed by Mary.
• A Reading by Paul West

  Mary Gass designed, printed and wrote this invitation to a party following a 1986 reading by Paul West at WashU. The reading was part of the annual Philosophy and Literature Lecture series that Gass inaugurated to accompany his course which included work by the invited writer.
• New Letters on the Air: Contemporary Writers on Radio

  In this interview broadcast by University of Missouri-Kansas City in May 1990, Gass talks about his literary strengths and weaknesses, the challenge of depicting a reprehensible character in a sympathetic and cultured light, the origin and development of On Being Blue, and more.
• Poster advertising MetroLines program on contact paper

  A poster advertising the MetroLines program on contact paper so it acts like a giant sticker
• A Temple of Texts typescript

  A Temple of Texts typescript with annotations and corrections by William Gass.
• Metrolines posters with poems

  2 Metrolines poetry contest posters with the poems that won printed on them
• Kārlis Vērdiņš speaks at the 2016 William H. Gass Symposium

  Karlis Verdins speaks at the the 2016 William H. Gass Symposium on September 23rd, 2016, at Washington University in St. Louis. The symposium honored Gass's work with the International Writers Center, featuring presentations from Ignacio Infante, Gerhild Williams, Lorin Cuoco, Mary Jo Bang, Matthias Göritz, Stephen Schenkenberg, Susan Bernofsky, and Katja Perat.
• Matthias Göritz and Mary Jo Bang speak at the the 2016 William H. Gass Symposium

  Matthias Göritz and Mary Jo Bang speak at the the 2016 William H. Gass Symposium on September 23rd, 2016, at Washington University in St. Louis. The symposium honored Gass's work with the International Writers Center, featuring presentations from Ignacio Infante, Gerhild Williams, Lorin Cuoco, Stephen Schenkenberg, Susan Bernofsky, Karlis Verdins, and Katja Perat.