In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

First Edition, hardcover in dust jacket, issued by Harper &amp; Row, 1968.

Literature & Fiction

Gass, William

Contemporary

Harper&Row

In this sequel to Fiction &amp; the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. The vividness and clarity of Gass's writing, the unabashed love and inimitable use of language-his startling metaphors, the sinuousness of his philosophy, the originality of his vision-make each essay a searching revelation of its subject, as well as an example of Gass's own singular artistry.

The world within the word: Essays

Essays & Correspondence

Alfred.A. Knopf

Late Harvest: Rural American Writing

The contributions of thirty-five important contemporary authors--including Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Garrison Keillor--highlight a superlative anthology that documents America's firm ties to its rural roots.

KEILLOR, Garrison

DILLARD, ANNIE

Berry, Wendell

Chute, Carolyn

Stegner, Wallace Earle

Abbey, Edward

MASON, BOBBIE ANN.

Reference

Smithmark Pub.

In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, Conjunctions, "arguably the most distinguished journal of prose and poetry in America" (Elle), gathers a virtual Who's Who of innovative contemporary literature. Conjunctions:37 will feature new work by writers as diverse as Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Chinua Achebe, Rick Moody, Richard Powers, Jorie Graham, William T. Vollmann, Paul West, Carole Maso, Ann Lauterbach and many surprise contributors. This special issue will also feature an important short story by Vladimir Nabokov, newly translated by Dimitri Nabokov for Conjunctions, which has never before appeared in English. Joyce Carol Oates offers a first look at her haunting new novel in progress, The Falls, and William H. Gass gives us a darkly hilarious tour de force with his novella, Charity. The twentieth-anniversary issue will surely be, as the Village Voice has said of Conjunctions, "A must read" for anyone interested in contemporary fiction, poetry and drama.

Conjunctions: 37, Twentieth Anniversary Issue

Achebe, Chinua

POWERS, RICHARD

Lauterbach, Ann

WEST, PAUL

Graham, Jorie

Maso, Carole

Eve, Nomi

AUSTER, PAUL.

Matthews, Harry

Vollmann, William

OATES,JOYCE CAROL

NABOKOV,Vladimir

DeLillo, Don.

Bard College

Now that the art of motion pictures has matured into its second century, Conjunctions has commissioned a diverse group of writers to respond--in poetry, fiction, and multi-genre works--to the countless cultural, historical, psychological and theatrical aspects of the seductive flickering medium we watch in the dark. Cinema Lingua pays creative homage to the symbiosis between filmmaking and the written word. Our authors explore, rewrite and celebrate all avenues of film, from its narrative plots to visual storytelling, from character to mood, from lighting to suspense. Each contributor presents defining visions of the movies and focuses the lens of writing on one of our liveliest modern art forms, from mainstream Hollywood to the most exotic corners of the experimental and avant garde. A movie theater of the mind, Cinema Lingua's contributors include Joyce Carol Oates, who explores the troubled relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his leading ladies, Peter Straub writing on film noir, Peter Gizzi, who offers a multi-genre poem on silent film, Frederic Tuten, whose Never Never Land Near Marienbad is based on the Alain Resnais film, as well as works by Peter Hutton, Elizabeth Willis, Robert Coover, William H. Gass, Tan Lin, Kent Jones, Joshua Furst and many others.

Conjunctions: 42, Cinema Lingua

YAU, John

Lin, Tan

COOVER, Robert

Gizzi, Peter

Jones, Kent

Willis, Elizabeth

Jarnot, Lisa

Hutton, Peter

Literary

A dazzling new collection of essays--on reading, writing, form, and thought--from one of America's master writers. Beginning with personal, both past and present, it emphasizes William H. Gass's lifelong attachment to books and then moves on to ponder the work of some of his favorite writers (among them Kafka, Nietzsche, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Proust). An essential addition to the Gassian canon, Life Sentences shows William H. Gass at his best.

Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts (Dalkey Archive Scholarly)

Dalkey Archive Press

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