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Typescript and autograph draft of “First Love" by Samuel Beckett and translated by Raymond Federman, circa 1966-1967.Federman translated “First Love” from French while it was still unpublished. “First Love” was written…

Printout draft of “Letter to the Editors of the Post-Dispatch” by William H. Gass as Samuel Clemens, regarding a bill to rename the Mark Twain Expressway the Mark McGwire Expressway, September 30, 1998.

Faxed, corrected printout draft of the essay, “On Experimental Writing: Some Clues for the Clueless,” published in The New York Times Book Review, August 21, 1994. Essay was reprinted/revised as "Anywhere But Kansas" in:The Iowa Review,…

Advertisement for “Reading and Book Talk: Dante’s Inferno Reimagined for the 21st Century” sponsored by Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, October 23, 2014. Translator Mary Jo Bang and Illustrator Henrik Drescher discuss…

Advertisement for “Recollecting William Gaddis” sponsored by Washington University Libraries, November 14, 2002.

“Statement” for the Paterson Society by Robert Creeley from Floating Bear, Number 6 (1961), January 31, 1961.

“Surface of the City” slides used by Gass during lectures.

Modern Literature Collection, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1994 issue featuring “The Art of Self: Autobiography in an Age of Narcissism” by William H. Gass. Published as “The Art of Self” in Harper’s Magazine (May 1994) and…

Program for “Washington University Libraries Bookmark Society and the Assembly Series Present William H. Gass,” February 26, 1995.

“Washington University Libraries Bookmark Society and the Assembly Series Present William H. Gass” at Edison Theatre, Washington University in St. Louis, February 26, 1995.