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Brochure advertising the Writer's Program at Washington University in St. Louis, with Stanley Elkin, Donald Finkel, WIlliam Gass, John Morris, Howard Nemerov and Jarvis Thurston listed as the faculty who staff it.

The Writers’ Program brochure, Washington University, 1980.

Washington University Alumni Board of Governors Faculty Award, awareded to William H. Gass

The first hour of Gass's lecture, titled "Four Theories of Love," delivered in Hurst Lounge on the Washington University in St. Louis campus. The theories of love are from Plato, Stendhal (19th Century French writer), Rainer Maria Rilke and Sigmund…

Stanley Elkin introduces Gass and then Gass delivers his essay "The Habitations of the Word" to an audience in the Hurst Lounge on the Washington University in St. Louis campus.

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…

William H. Gass reading "The Cost of Everything" fromThe Tunnel, at an Academic Committee Reading in the Women's Building on the Washington University in St. Louis Campus. This file is only the first hour of the reading/recording. An unidentified…

A portion of Gass's reading at Washington University in St. Louis, titled "How to Behave Around Books." Gass read from an essay, "I Live in a Library," and excerpts from his newly-published novel, Middle C. The reading was part of an event to…

An article titled "Poetry in Motion," from Volume Eight, Number Two ofArts & Sciencesmagazine.

Poster for A Temple of Texts exhibition in the Special Collections in Olin Library.