Selected draft fragments of the essay, "The Artist and Society,"first published inThe New Republic, July 17, 1968, reprinted inThe Purdue AlumnusandThe Penguin Book of Essay,and collected inFiction and the Figures of Life.
Gass lecture titled "Beginnings," delivered in Graham Chapel at Washington University in St. Louis, the first in the Assembly Series for the 1976-77 academic year.
Masquerade” and Other Stories Robert Walser. Translated by Susan Bernofsky andforeward by William H. Gass. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1990