William Gass

William Gass

 

William Gass (The Tunnel, Omensetter’s Luck, and Reading Rilke) has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, a Lannan Lifetime Achievement award, the Pen-Nabokov Prize, and a gold medal for fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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On Talking to Oneself
May 18, 2020

On May 18, 1979 William Gass delivered a heavy commencement address at Washington University

Auguste Rodin, by Rainer Rilke (Excerpt)
May 1, 2020

Rilke’s description of Rodin sheds light on the profound psychic connection between the two great artists.