In this homage to the pleasures of language, William Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to explore the relationship between a woman and her lover, as well as a book and its reader.
After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English, William Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing in order to see if he could, in that way, get closer to the work he so deeply admired.
Extraordinary man's entrance into a small American town sets off a ground swell of violent emotions.
A new collection of essays by the author of Finding a Form explores themes of writing, form and thought while considering the author's life-long attachment to books, in a volume that considers the works of such favorites as Kafka, Nietzsche ...
William H. Gass, one of america's most brilliant and eclectic minds, examines literature, culture, writers, and the nature and uses of language and the written word.
. . In the story Dont Even Try, Sam, the upright piano from the 1942 Warner Bros. classic Casablanca is interviewed (I know why you want to talk to me, the piano says. Its because everybody else is dead. Stars go out.
Cultural Studies. Autobiography. Visual Arts.THREE ESSAYS presents the work of three of America's most distinguishedwriters--Gerald Early, William H. Gass, and Naomi Lebowitz.