Jesus christ I can't believe it's already been five years. As far as I'm concerned american literature died with him.
@Jack-fj7yc Жыл бұрын
@@coltonc7832 agreed
@basserman Жыл бұрын
@@coltonc7832 Pynchon? Levin? Theroux? Delillo?
@KL009810 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this! I'm reading Middle C right now and loving it; Gass has been an amazing new discovery for me.
@dirtycelinefrenchman6 ай бұрын
Didn’t expect him to be such a jovial and garrulous fellow
@deedrake48468 жыл бұрын
Wonderful to reconnect with Gass. It's been awhile since the last time. Thank you.
@АндрейПетров-д2э Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic masterpiece of a writer interview!
@LexWick8 жыл бұрын
One of the best interviews with a writer ever
@HomeAtLast5012 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you know why? Because he's one of the few authors who knows what he's doing, who has a clear structure and method. He can explain what his approach is. As opposed to people like David Foster Wallace, who was a fraud and didn't have a clear perspective
@brokenfingers982 жыл бұрын
@@HomeAtLast501 yeah what a floopy fraud that phony pencil pusher Mr. Imposter Wallace was. lets gang up together, just you and me, and let's maybe say it louder? Apologies, my family is visiting from cross-state, not sure who that was - But Walter Walkman sorry, Wallice,, structurally, at least had the skeletal mold of the sierapinski gasket in mind when crafting IJ, so its a little less than charitable to imply he didn't know what he was doing in this way/ But I'd agree thematically he might have shot off all at once in near all ways, but some people seem to enjoy it most for this reason/
@PiroKUSS2 жыл бұрын
@@HomeAtLast501 How does a writer with no specific method become a fraud?
@HomeAtLast5012 жыл бұрын
@@brokenfingers98 He essentially admitted it in a bunch of his interviews. What he thought were major insights as an adult, were pretty basic insights for me as a teen.
@Monkeynet015 жыл бұрын
gass always looks like my grandma on the verge of tears
@TheOtherSymeon5 жыл бұрын
I said the exact same thing to myself
@NealDurando4 жыл бұрын
Wild mountain woman.
@Monkeynet013 жыл бұрын
@@brucebobtrotter2170 grandma tells me she loves me ; (
@aaronosrs2 жыл бұрын
@@brucebobtrotter2170 you are not intelligent
@AnneSofieLovesMozart2 жыл бұрын
@@aaronosrs I have reflected upon your words for a few weeks now, and have come to the conclusion, that Mr. Bobtrotter IS infact intelligent. Now this, of course, is very reductive to just sum up in a single word, without further explanations, but I assure you I will publish my thesis on the subject in the next issue of the Paris Review. Tally ho and such Yours truly Mozart (W. A.)
@kintrap53765 ай бұрын
Just wow.
@tboss81578 жыл бұрын
TUNNEL
@molloyxx16 жыл бұрын
'On Being Blue"...…..
@ShorkGamer7 жыл бұрын
very very good!
@ryanand1546 ай бұрын
David Lynch has become my grandmother.
@davidkelsall61646 ай бұрын
About time.
@ryanand1546 ай бұрын
Michael Silverblatt asks about the Order of Insects.
@ryanand1546 ай бұрын
You write after the sentence and Agassi admits he’s slow.
@ryanand1546 ай бұрын
Gertrude Stein was talking to NPR but grandpa went down to the strip club.
@ryanand1546 ай бұрын
Gen x can learn from these cornpones.
@ryanand1546 ай бұрын
RIP Michael Silverblatt. Murdered in the next Halloween film.
@eastwoofer Жыл бұрын
So stupidly pretentious. Thank god for me and gen x.
@ryanand1546 ай бұрын
You are the future.
@AM-is1jh5 ай бұрын
what are you writing?
@ryanand1545 ай бұрын
@@AM-is1jh I’m currently working on a piece about Robert Musil’s The Blackbird for Guns and Ammo Magazine. What are you writing?
@AM-is1jh5 ай бұрын
@@ryanand154 my first novel about the myth of the self and sexual aberration e.g. homosexuality
@deep_fried_midget4 ай бұрын
@@ryanand154Guns and Ammo readers are more Thomas Mann people.
@traplordhentaimaster16335 ай бұрын
Bruh I thought Gass wayyy different. It make the tunnel more accessible now
@aidanmcparland6853 Жыл бұрын
Funny how Gass comes off as so affable and quaint, very Midwestern. Hard to imagine something as grotqesque as The Tunnel was written by him.
@motherfinestudios7 жыл бұрын
'My God it's amazing this thing exists...'
@davidwhite35984 ай бұрын
I’m 56 and have recently heard about William Gass from a Better Than Food book review on KZbin. How am I just now discovering this amazing writer?
@Jurry253 Жыл бұрын
Anyone know which Stein book(s) Gass and Silverblatt are quoting?
@Jack-fj7yc Жыл бұрын
Gass’ is from a book called How To Write He is also referencing it in the context of Lectures in America, a book of Stein lectures on art. During one of the lectures Stein discusses sentences (how they work, what she feels about them, &c), including the “It looked like a garden” one Idk where Silverblatt’s is from
@jameslatin2939 Жыл бұрын
You've uploaded lots of great material. Is there any possibility that you would share some of the files directly? Thanks
@ambrogiajancometi40318 жыл бұрын
I like
@ryanand1546 ай бұрын
These lit dudes are all about Platonism.
@sterlingweston9 ай бұрын
such a great mind
@aldenjenks Жыл бұрын
Not sure there is such a thing as "Cartesian sonata form", but whatever
@ryanand1546 ай бұрын
Bill Gass’ haircut looks like Billy needs a barber.