Items

• Letter from Gerhild Williams to Ed Macias, March 20, 1990

  A letter from Gerhild Williams to Ed Macias about plans for the International Writers Center, March 20, 1990
• Letter from Gerhild Williams to Ed Macias, December 19, 1989

  A letter from Gerhild Williams to Ed Macias about starting up a Writers Center, December 19, 1989
• Pamphlet from the Rushdie Defense Committee, USA

  Pamphlet from the Rushdie Defense Committee, USA, listing the International Writers Center as a committee member
• St. Louis Literary Calendar

  St. Louis Literary Calendar mail brochure for September 2000
• Bloomsday 1994
• Old Foes with New Faces

  Essay by William Gaddis delivered at The Writer and Religion conference
• Itinerary

  Literary Tour of St. Louis Itinerary
• Report of the Meeting with Salman Rushdie

  Typed up report of Gass’s meeting with Salman Rushdie at Boulder, CO conference
• Letter from William Gass to Salman Rushdie

  Letter from William Gass to Salman Rushdie about contributing to The Writer in Politics book.
• Advertisement for The Writer in Politics book

  Southern Illinois University Press catalog from Spring 1996 with advertisement for The Writer In Politics book
• A.G. Mojtabai speaks at the International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion"

  A.G. Mojtabai speaks at the International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion". Here, she relates her experience as a hospice worker, focusing on an encounter with a man's granddaughter who refused the offer to "read a poem" on the occasion of his death.
• Amitav Ghosh speaks at the International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion"

  Indian writer Amitav Ghosh speaks at the International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion". Here, he discusses moments of conversion among international writers, illuminating their significance as cross-overs "from one current of modernism to another".
• Heide Ziegler speaks at the International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion"

  Literary critic Heide Ziegler speaks at the October 24, 1994 International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion". Here, she discusses the co-evolutions of fiction and poetry alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
• Eavan Boland speaks at the International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion"

  A.G. Mojtabai speaks at the International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion". Here, she relates her experience as a hospice worker, focusing on an encounter with a man's granddaughter who refused the offer to "read a poem" on the occasion of his death.
• The Writer in Politics brochure

  Mail brochure for The Writer in Politics
• WE ARE SALMAN RUSHDIE pins

  3 circular "campaign-style" buttons - black and white (some with a little red), say "We are Salman Rushdie"
• Literary St. Louis book cover mock-up

  Mock-up for the cover of the Literary St. Louis book
• Gass drawing/diagram of Literary St. Louis entries

  Gass drawing/diagram of LSL entries
• William Gass speaks at the International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion"

  William Gass introduces keynote speaker William Gaddis at the International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion," October 23, 1994, detailing the rise of his work from the "cult" like shadows to an equally--if not more--shadowy situation of renown.
• William Gaddis speaks at the International Writers Center conference, "The Writer and Religion"

  In his October 23, 1994 keynote speech for the International Writers Center conference, "The Writer and Religion," William Gaddis gestures toward the foggy line between the "ascetic" and the "aesthetic," citing his experience with a "pro-Catholic" interpretation of his writing.