Birthday Notes on William Gass and The Tunnel

Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William Gass got me to thinking back on The Tunnel, which I read at a fairly formative time in my life. (Also at a time of total psychic collapse, for which it ...

Why Write? by William Gass

Getting even is one great reason for writing. The precise statement of the motive is tricky, but the clearest expression of my of my unwholesome nature and my mean motives (apart from trying to write ...

Samuel Beckett: How It Is & Ping

Sentiment and Kitsch

Kaddish for a Child Not Born, Imre Kertesz

William Gass on Writing