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“Carpenter’s Gothic”: William Gaddis’s Compositional Self

Los Angeles Review of Books
THERE ARE STOLEN MOMENTS when raising a young child, the letup during nap time being a prime example. In one of these recent pauses,...
68 months ago

Because God Did Not Relax, by Christopher Beha

Harper's Magazine
Discussed in this essay: The Recognitions, by William Gaddis. NYRB Classics. 976 pages. $27.95. J R, by William Gaddis. NYRB Classics. 784 pages. $24.95.
47 months ago

The World Has Finally Caught Up to William Gaddis’ ‘The Recognitions’

Observer
Toward the middle of The Recognitions, the massive debut novel by William Gaddis first published in 1955, a story is told about a fake...
46 months ago

Mr. Difficult Rides Again: On the Unexpected Genius of William Gaddis’s Masterpiece

Literary Hub
In a 2002 essay entitled “Mr. Difficult,” the novelist Jonathan Franzen described at length his dislike of William Gaddis's novel J R.
46 months ago

TMR Season Fourteen: “J R” by William Gaddis « Three Percent

University of Rochester
To celebrate the NYRB reissue of J R by William Gaddis—one of my all-time favorite books—we're going to feature it as the next title in the...
46 months ago

The Letters of William Gaddis edited by Steven Moore – review

The Guardian
William Gaddis shunned publicity, believing that an author's work should speak for itself. Which is why his letters are so tantalising.
135 months ago

Adam Mars-Jones · There isn’t any inside! William Gaddis

London Review of Books
These novels, first published in 1955 and 1975 and now reissued as classics, are certainly monuments, but less monuments in terms of...
36 months ago

It Ain’t Easy: William Gaddis’s Life in Letters

Observer
In 2002, Jonathan Franzen published an essay in The New Yorker titled “Mr. Difficult,” in which he detailed his changing readerly relationship with William...
139 months ago

'I cried when it was all over': the actor who brought 120 characters to life

The Guardian
JR is a 700-page satire of capitalism featuring 120 characters who speak in unattributed quotes. It has been called 'unreadable'.
46 months ago

“Fire The Bastards!”: The Great Defender of William Gaddis

The New Yorker
William Gaddis, in the closing pages of his colossal 1955 novel “The Recognitions,” inserts a brief scene that manages to be at once...
151 months ago