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International Writers Center

In 1990, William H. Gass founded the International Writers Center at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was teaching philosophy. With Gass as Director and Lorin Cuoco as Associate Director, the IWC spent a decade hosting readings of significant writers (among them David Foster Wallace, Michael Ondaatje, Ben Marcus, and Lydia Davis), putting on conferences, and publishing the results of those conferences. The IWC published these:

• A Temple of Texts: Fifty Literary Pillars (1990 pamphlet for exhibition)
  
• The Writer in Politics (1991 conference) 
• The Writer and Religion (1994 conference)
• The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, the Artist as Writer (2 books; 1997 conference)
• Literary St. Louis: A Guide

Gass and Cuoco eventually left the Center, and it was refashioned as the Center for the Humanities.