The first 159 pages of the setting copy ofThe World Within the Word. Includes the title and credit pages, and the first five essays: "The Doomed in their Sinking" (p. 1-17), "Malcom Lowery" (p. 18-46), "Wisconsin Death Trip" (p. 47-54), "Mr. Blotner,…
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.
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.
Printout draft of a memorial speech for John Hawkes, delivered by Gass at Brown University in Providence, RI on April 14, 1999. Inscribed by Gass on last page.