Interviews
Gass is also known as a profound and witty interviewee. Major magazines and newspapers as well as scholarly journals devote pages to their conversations with him, including, in 2013, over 30,000 words in the presitgious literary journal-magazine hybrid, Tin House. Many of Gass's interviews are for European publications as Gass has a strong following in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and elsewhere.
As seen on this page, the Special Collections offer both published and unpublished versions of Gass interviews, as text and audio, from a variety of sources.
Transcript of interview with William H. Gass by William Heath, for the The Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin, 1968
"Art and Other Things: A Conversation with William Gass" published in The Purdue Exponent, May 22, 1969
Typed transcript of Breadloaf interview with William H. Gass, 1974
"Pole Vaulting in Top Hats: A Public Conversation with John Barth, William Gass, and Ishmael Reed" - from the UND Writers Conference, 1975
The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers prospectus and book order form, 1975
"A Conversation with Stanley Elkin and William H. Gass" by Jeffrey L. Duncan for The Iowa Review, Winter 1976
Excerpt of William H. Gass and John Gardner discussion, published in The New York Times Magazine, July 8, 1979
"An Interview with William Gass" by Jan Garden Castro in Ade Bulletin, Winter 1981
Cassette tape cover for William Gass Interview with Kay Bonetti, American Audio Prose Library, 1981
William Gass interviewed for the KWMU Literary Profiles Radio Program, October 2, 1985
Corrected transcript of an interview with William H. Gass - August 15, 1995
“William Gass” by Jan Garden Castro for BOMB, Winter 1995