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Photograph of Derek Walcott and William Gass, at Simon Hall, Washington University in St. Louis, during a reception for the International Writers Center

Derek Walcott reads from his poetic essay "Tiepolo's Hound" for the International Writers Center conference, "The Dual Muse: The Writer As Artist, The Artist As Writer". Walcott wrote this piece in response to his invitation to the conference.

Donald Barthelme, William Gaddis, and Muriel Oxenberg Murphy at a party celebrating William H. Gass's election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1983.

Masquerade” and Other Stories Robert Walser. Translated by Susan Bernofsky andforeward by William H. Gass. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1990

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…

Excerpt from “Shelf Life” by William H. Gass, St. Louis Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 12 (December 2007).

The first ten pages of the first typed draft of The Tunnel

William H. Gass discussing literature and reading excerpts of his fiction at the Person-To-Person Lecture Series in the Women's Building on Washington University in St. Louis campus. An unidentified speaker gives Gass a brief introduction. The…

Gass drawing/diagram of LSL entries

William H. Gass introducing David Foster Wallace at the West Campus Conference Center on Washington University in St. Louis campus, for a reading Wallace gave for the International Writers Center.