Printout draft of "Dis.covery," later published as "In Defense of the Book," in Harper's Magazine, Australian Financial Review, Los Angeles Times, The Best American Essays of 2000, and as a chapbook, then collected in A Temple of Texts.
Book covers for two editions of A Defense of the Book by William H. Gass. Designed by Ken Botnick. St. Louis, MO: Emdash, 2001 Published in Harper’s Magazine (November 1999) and A Temple of Texts, New York: Knopf, 2006
Printout of an address given by Gass to the Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, published in Conjunctions: 33 (1999). This address was adapted from the essay, "William Gaddis and His Goddamn Books," published in A Temple of Texts and…