Prize-Winning Author-Critic William Gass Dead at 93

[Mark Kohut]

Dee goes way back in "understanding" and commenting on Gass. There is an
Isabelle Dee Wedemeyer who is or was
a literary agent, but not Gass's in his later years from what I can
superficially determine.

As we know, obituaries of such famous people get written years, sometimes
decades before the end--esp when you live to 93.

My guess, out of my semi-experienced ass, is that Ms Wedemeyer was at one
time his agent (doubtful though) and/or a writer on literary writers and
topics
at the NYTimes in 1999 at least. A- and was asked to write this sometime
after, not long after--with revisions always happening before the end.

In 1999 William woudda been 75.....check out Bellow's fine bit of writing
about getting called by the Times re HIS obituary.
So, Gass hisself probably sold you on retrying The Tunnel, which I could
never even enter in my tunnelized life then. And untried since.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/13/books/still-at-war-new-fiction-still-has-a-champion.html

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Who the heck is Dee Wedemeyer? She just singlehandednly got me to break
> out The Tunnel again.
>
> J
>
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 3:27 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/obituaries/william-h-gass
>> -acclaimed-postmodern-author-dies-at-93.html?rref=collectio
>> n%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentColle
>> ction=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=
>> highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=1
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 12:24 PM, etb <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/missouri/articles/20
>>> 17-12-07/prize-winning-author-critic-william-gass-dead-at-93
>>>
>>
>>
>
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