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An invitation to a silent art auction to benefit River Styx. William H. Gass's art is included in the auction and Gass is a member of the Honorary Committee.

The first 10 of 63 pages of a printout draft of the essay, "Romancing the Mind," published inConjunctions: 59, Fall 2012.

Announcement for the International Writers Center "Writer and Religion" Conference, October 23-26, 1994, with printed text for an invitation to a dinner to celebrate the conclusion of the conference.

Printout draft of Gass's address at the 1998 St. Louis Walk of Fame induction ceremony.

Announcement for Washington and Lee University's "Symposium on Contemporary Fiction," with Donald Barthelme, William Gass, Grace Paley and Susan Sontag, presented by the Glasgow Endowment Committee.

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,…

Brochure catalog of short courses offered in the Fall 1972 - Spring 1973 academic year at Washington University in St. Louis. Includes "The Character of Contemporary American Fiction," taught by William H. Gass.

Selected typescript and manuscript notes and draft pages of "The Clairvoyant," a short story first published inLocation, I, No. 2 (1964); reprinted inAesop's Feast, I, No. 1 (1968); and revised and retitled "The Writing on the Wall" for inclusion…

Autograph draft fragments titled "The Masques of the Self," eventually published as "The Art of Self: Autobiography in an Age of Narcissism," Harper's Magazine, May 1994, reprinted inThe Best American Essays of 1994, reprinted and translated into…

Postcard invitation to "The Surface of the City" photograph exhibition and reading by William H. Gass.