William Gass, Rush Chairman ...

[Dave Monroe]

... damn glad to meet you.  Because I'm under the
impression that William H. Gass is or at least might
be of some interest somehow here, I'll mention that he
writes an introduction to ...

Burton, Robert.  The Anatomy of Melancholy.
   New York: NYRB Books, 2001 [1621].

... available again and at long last both unabridged
and in paperback.  The great, neglected Big Book (547
pages inc. notes and index of small, cramped print
from a 1932 Oxford UP ed.) of the English Renaissance.
 

The NYRB is, like the Dalkey Archive, doing the Lord's
work in putting deserving titles back in print ...

http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/NYRB/index.html

... AND they've a 20% off online orders sales going. 
I'd esp. recommend Ernst Junger's The Glass Bees
(think protofascist Brave New World or We or R.U.R.)
to this crowd ...  

http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/NYRB/glassbees.html

I haven't read any of Gass's fiction yet (though I did
order a couple of novels from the Dalkey
Archive--still waiting to hear back whether they have
everything, by the way ...), but he writes about being
confused with William Gaddis in, ironically, his
introduction to the latter's The Recognitions ...



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