NP - Plist opinion on W Gass

[Mark Kohut]

I feel the same way about OMENSETTER's LUCK....The early book of short stories is a bit " easier" to sorta get but I can't remember them at all; I remember feeling so " in" when I got his special printing of WILLIE MASTER's LONESOME WIFE thru Tri-Quarterly  Mag back in the day. ( didn't know what to make of it when young ). I thought his FICTION AND THE FIGURES OF LIFE taught me good stuff, and I'm sure it did but, later, it seemed too.....removed from the life in fiction......but I've never revisited.....Love the idea of BLUE but never got to....and was too lazily undisciplined to keep reading THE TUNNEL as I was not re some other writers.......( but undisciplined is the more, so to speak) 

I have heard he is a rewarding teacher, influencing many writers. one, Garth Hallberg, has a big book coming [CITY ON FIRE] that is in the GASS--PYNCHON tradition, ( so I've heard) so to almost meaninglessly say, 

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> On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:55 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I consider myself a fan of Gass, but I have only read Omensetter's Luck. It was one if the hardest, densest short novels I've come across. I also enjoyed him on Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt. So I like him, but don't have as much experience with his writing as I do Gaddis' and TP's.
> 
>> On Oct 21, 2014 4:06 AM, "matthew cissell" <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Howdy listers,
>> 
>>    It's clear that we have some William Gaddis fans on the list, but how do folks feel about William Gass? I don't seem to recall having seen his name mentioned here (of course I don't read every mail either). Anybody? Two cents of feedback?
>> 
>> Have a happy Tuesday cuz the Happy Mondays are gone.
>> 
>> ciao
>> Otis
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