Awards, Images, Artwork
The Tunnel is known for many things, not least of which are the illustrations that accompany--or interact with--the text. The materials related to The Tunnel in the William H. Gass Papers include folders full of, for example, Gass's illustrations, diagrams and designs for the Party of the Disappointed People and the tunnel system that the narrator William Kohler digs. Also of note are the different drafts of a humorous poem-cartoon that didn't make it into the final book.
The Tunnel - Illustrations
"Worlds Within Words," an Exhibition from the Special Collections of Washington University, 1995
American Book Award for The Tunnel, 1996
The Tunnel sample dust jackets
Party of the Disappointed People (PdP) t-shirt
William H. Gass at Clayton Studios during the recording of The Tunnel
"Not a Very Good Limerick" by Claro
William H. Gass speaking at the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony
Photograph collage of Gass being painted by Philip Guston at the Yaddo artists' community, 1969, just before Gass gave his reading of "Why Windows Are Important To Me," from The Tunnel
