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• Donald Barthelme, William Gaddis, and Muriel Oxenberg Murphy at a party celebrating William H. Gass's election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1983

  Donald Barthelme, William Gaddis, and Muriel Oxenberg Murphy at a party celebrating William H. Gass's election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1983.
• William H. Gass at the Great Wall of China, 1984

  William H. Gass at the Great Wall of China, 1984.
• Dust jacket for "Masquerade” and Other Stories Robert Walser.  Translated by Susan Bernofsky and foreward by William H. Gass.

  Masquerade” and Other Stories Robert Walser.  Translated by Susan Bernofsky and foreward by William H. Gass.  Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1990
• William H. Gass with Allen Ginsberg at the Chinese Writer's Association conference in China, 1984

  Allen Ginsberg, an unidentified writer and William H. Gass at the Chinese Writer's Association conference in China, 1984.
• Heide Ziegler, Jack Hawkes, William H. Gass, and John Barth at an American-German conference in Germany, July 1979

  Heide Ziegler, Jack Hawkes, William H. Gass, and John Barth at an American-German conference in Germany, July 1979
• William H. Gass speaking at the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony

  Photograph of William H. Gass speaking at the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony. His novel The Tunnel was nominated for the fiction award.
• William H. Gass's bookshelves

  Photographs of selected William H. Gass's bookshelves at home, 2013.
• William Gaddis Photograph by William Gass

  Photograph of William Gaddis, taken by William Gass in the Soviet Union, 1985
• "The Surface of the City" Slide Photographs

  Slide photographs taken by Gass and used for his slide lecture, titled "The Surface of the City," published in Harper's Magazine, and delivered at the Georgia Tech School of Architecture, the Walker Art Institute in Minneapolis, and the St. Louis Art Museum.
• Omensetter's Luck Clippings

  Two clippings related to Gass's first novel, Omensetter's Luck:
• William H. Gass Letters to David Segal Regarding Omensetter's Luck

  Photocopy of a thirteen-page typescript letter from Gass to his editor, David Segal, going into the structure, themes and significance of Omensetter's Luck, as well as great works of literature in general.
• Gass Reading from Middle C

  A portion of Gass's reading at Washington University in St. Louis, titled "How to Behave Around Books." Gass read from an essay, "I Live in a Library," and excerpts from his newly-published novel, Middle C. The reading was part of an event to celebrate Middle C and the exhibition in Special Collections, "William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence." A reception and book signing followed. This video contains the first half of the Middle C portion of the reading. The entire reading, including introductory remarks by Joel Minor, the curator of the Modern Literature Collection, and William Danforth, Chancellor Emeritus, is available on YouTube.
• Typescript draft of an introduction for Donald Barthelme

  Typescript draft of an introduction for Donald Barthelme by William H. Gass.
• “Letter to the Editors of the Post-Dispatch”

  Printout draft of “Letter to the Editors of the Post-Dispatch” by William H. Gass as Samuel Clemens, regarding a bill to rename the Mark Twain Expressway the Mark McGwire Expressway.
• Gass Reading "The Cost of Everything"

  William H. Gass reading "The Cost of Everything" from The Tunnel, at an Academic Committee Reading in the Women's Building on the Washington University in St. Louis Campus. This file is only the first hour of the reading/recording. An unidentified speaker briefly welcomes the audience and introduces Gass.
• Gass Discussing Literature and Reading His Fiction

  William H. Gass discussing literature and reading excerpts of his fiction at the Person-To-Person Lecture Series in the Women's Building on Washington University in St. Louis campus. An unidentified speaker gives Gass a brief introduction. The recording is divided into four parts, roughly twenty minutes each. The question and answer period that followed is not included. Gass intersperses selections from his fiction in his lecture, to illustrate his topics. In part 1, Gass reads from "The Clairvoyant" (later published as a section of Cartesian Sonata); in parts 2-3, he reads from Omensetter's Luck; in part 3-4 he reads from In the Heart of the Heart of the Country; and in part 4 he reads from Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife.
• Gass Introduction of David Foster Wallace

  William H. Gass introducing David Foster Wallace at the West Campus Conference Center on Washington University in St. Louis campus, for a reading Wallace gave for the International Writers Center.
• William H. Gass and William Gaddis: The Writer and Religion Conference

  William H. Gass introduces Wililam Gaddis, who speaks on the subject of religion for the International Writers Center symposium, The Writer and Religion.
• Gass Reading "At Death's Door"

  William H. Gass reading "At Death's Door," from The Tunnel, at Duff's Restaurant in St. Louis, as part of a collaborative River Styx and International Writers Center reading, with Lorin Cuoco and visiting poet Anton Shammas.
• KETC A&E Awards

  Segments of the 1996 KETC A&E Awards program featuring William H. Gass: a short interview with Gass on the importance of KETC and a presentation on his work.