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• Antonio Skármeta at the Writer in Politics Conference

  Antonio Skármeta presenting at the Writer in Politics Conference on October 19, 1992.
• Randolph Pope, James McLeod, and Mario Vargas Llosa at the Writer in Politics Conference

  Randolph Pope, James McLeod, and Mario Vargas Llosa speaking at Antonio Skármata's presentation at the Writer in Politics Conference on October 19, 1992.
• Derek Walcott, Rochelle Steiner, and Breyten Breytenbach at the Dual Muse Symposium

  Derek Walcott, Rochelle Steiner, and Breyten Breytenbach at the Dual Muse Symposium on November 8, 1997 where Walcott is the featured speaker and Steiner and Breytenbach are panelists.
• William Gass and Johanna Drucker at the Dual Muse Symposium

  William Gass and Johanna Drucker speaking as a moderator and panelist, respectively, at Derek Walcott's presentation at the Dual Muse Symposium on November 8, 1997
• Breyten Breytenbach, Nuruddin Farah, and Steven Meyer at the Writer in Politics Conference

  Breyten Breytenbach presenting at podium with panelists Nuruddin Farah and Steven Meyer listening at the Writer in Politics Conference on October 21, 1992
• "The Apocalypse Museum" - Printout Draft

  Printout draft of "The Apocalypse Museum," published in Conjunctions, No. 27, 2001. It became chapter 6 in Middle C, and Gass added additional lines and paragraphs throughout the chapter.
• "Dis.covery"

  Printout draft of "Dis.covery," later published as "In Defense of the Book," in Harper's Magazine, Australian Financial Review, Los Angeles Times, The Best American Essays of 2000, as a chapbook, and then collected in A Temple of Texts.
• "A Master of Sweet Revenges" - Letter and Title Page

  Cover letter from Gass for a printout copy of his collection of novellas, "A Master of Sweet Revenges," published later as Cartesian Sonata, in which he explains the thematic elements to the stories. Also includes the cover page of the printout.
• "Lust" - Faxed Draft Photocopy

  First six pages of a photocopy of a printout draft of "Lust," faxed to and corrected by the publisher. This essay was first published in Wicked Pleasures: Meditations on the Seven 'Deadly' Sins, edited by Robert Solomon. New York, Rowan and Littlefield, 1999, then collected in Life Sentences.
• Reading version of "Invisible Cities"

  First ten pages of a reading version of "Invisible Cities," for a lecture given to Washington University's School of Architecture, March 26, 1984. Also includes two pages of his list of slides that accompanied the lecture. The essay was first published in VIA (1986) and later included in Tests of Time (2002).
• Printer's final copy of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, July 6, 1967

  Printer's final copy of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country,  July 6, 1967
• "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" - Purdue University Reading Version

  First ten pages of a 35-page reading version of the story "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" which Gass used at Purdue University. Includes corrections and notations by Gass.
• William H. Gass

  Portrait of William H. Gass
• Mary and William H. Gass

  Mary and William H. Gass
• William H. Gass, Robert Coover, Mary Gass, Walter Abish, Ceile Gelb, and Shelly Barth in New York, circa 1983-84

  William H. Gass, Robert Coover, Mary Gass, Walter Abish, Ceile Gelb, and Shelly Barth in New York, circa 1983-84.
• William H. and Mary Gass, June 2005

  William H. and Mary Gass, June 2005
• Walter Abish and William H. Gass in Graz, Austria

  Walter Abish and William H. Gass in Graz, Austria.
• William H. Gass reading a newspaper

  William H. Gass reading a newspaper.
• William H. Gass holding artwork by Buzz Spector

  William H. Gass holding Author (White Haired Man) by Buzz Spector.
• Unspeakable Practices IV: Celebrating 25 Years of Conjunctions, Brown University, October 4, 2006

  Unspeakable Practices IV: Celebrating 25 Years of Conjunctions, Brown University, October 4, 2006. Includes Bradford Morrow, Ben Marcus, Joanna Scott, Robert Coover, William Gass, Mary Gass, John Barth, Mary Caponegro, Robert Kelly, among others.