William H. Gass

William Howard Gass (30 Julie 1924 – 6 Desember 2017) was 'n Amerikaanse romansier, kortverhaalskrywer, essayis, kritikus, en filosofie professor.

Hy het drie romans, drie bundels kortverhale, 'n bundel novelles, en sewe volumes essays geskryf, waarvan drie die National Book Critics Circle Award gewen het en een, A Temple of Texts (2006), die Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Sy roman uit 2015, The Tunnel, het die American Book Award ontvang en sy roman uit 2013, Middle C, die William Dean Howells medalje vir 2015.

Bibliografie

Romans 
 Omensetter's Luck. 1966.
 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (vyf stories) (1968)
 Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (geïllustreerde novelle) (1968)
 The Tunnel (1995)
 Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas (vier novelles) (1998)
 Middle C (2013)
 Eyes (twee novelles, vier kortverhale) (2015)

Nie -fiksie 
 Fiction and the Figures of Life (1970)
 On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (1976)
 The World within the Word (1978)
 Habitations of the Word (1984)
 Finding a Form: Essays (1997)
 Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (1999)
 Tests of Time (2002)
 Conversations with William H. Gass (2003)
 A Temple of Texts (2006)
 Life Sentences (2012)

Onderhoude 
 Thomas LeClair (Summer 1977). "William Gass, The Art of Fiction No. 65". The Paris Review.
 Koval, Ramona (Jul–Aug 1996). "A converation with William Gass on 'The Tunnel'". Literature. Quadrant. 40 (7–8): 26–32.[17]
 Richard Abowitz (December 1998). "Still Digging: An interview with writer William Gass". Gadfly.
 Chris Orlet (October 1, 2000). "Interview With William H. Gass". Pif Magazine.
 Micheline Aharonian Marcom (September 22, 2004). "Lannan Readings & Conversations: William Gass". Lannan Foundation.
 "William Gass". The Believer. November 2005.
 "Interview with William H. Gass" (PDF). The Bard Observer. October 12, 2006.
 "Len Gutkin interviews William H. Gass". The Los Angeles Review of Books. April 1, 2013.
 Critical studies and reviews of Gass' work
 John Unsworth (Spring 1992). "William Gass's The Tunnel: The Work in Progress as Post-Modern Genre". Arizona Quarterly. 48.1.
 Stephen Schenkenberg. "Basking in Hell: Returning to William H. Gass's The Tunnel". The Quarterly Conversation.

Verwysings 

Geboortes in 1924
Sterftes in 2017
Amerikaanse skrywers