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,…
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…
The first 159 pages of the setting copy ofThe World Within the Word. Includes the title and credit pages, and the first five essays: "The Doomed in their Sinking" (p. 1-17), "Malcom Lowery" (p. 18-46), "Wisconsin Death Trip" (p. 47-54), "Mr. Blotner,…
Typescript draft of reading version of a passage ofWillie Masters' Lonesome Wife.Contains alternate draft of first page, introductory text, multiple color type and light autograph corrections.
Printout draft of a memorial speech for John Hawkes, delivered by Gass at Brown University in Providence, RI on April 14, 1999. Inscribed by Gass on last page.