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Cover for Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1968(TriQuarterly Supplement Number Two).

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.

"Stretched on the Rack of the Midwest" review by George P. Elliott of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass, The Nation, April 29, 1968.

American Book Award for The Tunnel, 1996

Cover of and four pages from the program for the 1997 Lannan Literary Awards. William H. Gass was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award. Pages included in this exhibit are: the front and back cover, the credits and explanation of Lannan, the list of…

Four captions written by Gass about the terrorism attacks of September 11, 2001, sent to photographer and friend, Michael Eastman, to accompany his Polaroid photographs of the event, for exhibit at the Missouri Historical Society in September 2002.…

River Styx, Number 21, 1986. A special issue devoted to “Family Album,” a slide lecture by Gass that was later adapted as a section of The Tunnel.

A.G. Mojtabai speaks at the International Writers Center conference "The Writer and Religion". Here, she relates her experience as a hospice worker, focusing on an encounter with a man's granddaughter who refused the offer to "read a poem" on the…

Advertisment for “Carrots, Noses, Snow, Rose, Roses: The Ontological Transformation of Language and Literature," a lecture given by William H. Gass at Princeton University,
April 12, 1976.

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.