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Nods

(Posted in order of discovery)

WG mentioned in a St. Louis American article, 9/10/09
Likely a lazy student's attempts at cheating get thwarted, 10/25/09
Parts of On Being Blue set to music, 10/25/09
Someone's being blue, 10/25/09
A striking photo on Exile paired with a WG quote, 10/25/09
Some tweets: one, two, three, four, five, six, 10/25/09
One, two, and three photographs from the Marathon Metamorphoses, 08/31/09
One, two, and three tweets, 08/09 and 09/09
HTMLGIANT revisits a favorite paragraph, 08/30/09
A lengthy post at the Samizdat Blog, 8/9/09
Jason includes The Tunnel in a top-two question, 8/17/09
Elliott's heart breaks w/ "In the Heart", 8/17/09
Garrison Keillor wished WG a Happy Birthday on his Writer's Almanac, 7/30/09
The Evening Redness of the West looks Tunnel-ward (via), 4/27/09
A few tweets, and a two-parter, 8/09
Mindful Pleasures takes note, 7/3/09
Scott at Conversation Reading is enjoying Finding a Form, 8/3/09
A nod from The F Word, 7/30/09
I Just Read About That just read W.G.'s Third Reich essay in Harpers, 7/24/09
The L.A. Times includes The Tunnel on a list of '61 essential postmodern reads,' 7/16/09
Artist Buzz Spector created an artwork about W.G., 4/15/04
Chronolect is blue, 7/14/09
Thoughts of the Idius is reading On Being Blue, 3/11/09
One,two, andthreerandom tweets, June 2009
Grammarian Richard Nordquist turns to WG, 5/14/08
Some Came Running is reading The Tunnel, 6/18/09
A mention in an interview with WG's daughter, artist Catherine Gass, 4/29/09
A few mentions in an interviewwith FC2 author Vanessa Place, 4/23/09
Talk at The Millions of audiobooks brings up The Tunnel, 5/11/09
Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin admits he wasnn't nodding to Heart of the Heart, 5/7/09
Garcia Loca is digging On Being Blue, 5/5/09
Rauldesaldanha writes about attending WG's Columbia lecture, 4/22/09
Being Blue at Flickr, 3/27/09
At The Millions, Garth Risk Hallberg refers to The Tunnel in his review of The Kindly Ones, 3/23/09
At New York Social Diary, a photo of WG, John Updike, and Eudora Welty, probably 1979
Paste includes Heart of the Heart in its list of The Greatest Art Ever Made About the Midwest, 3/4/09
The great songwriter Jeff Tweedy is a Gass reader, 11/8/04
At InsideHireEd, notes on Gass at AWP, 1/30/09
A Gass translation of Rilke makes someone's wall, 2/22/09
Blu magazine turns to Gass on Blue, 2/17/09
David Peak took a cruise to the Bahamas—and brought along The Tunnel, 2/17/09
Nick Holdstock enjoyed Gass' Katherine Anne Porter essay, 1/2709
Charlie Fern's Ink is grateful for Gass' intellectual workouts (note: This probably also explains how Laura Bush ended up quoting WG), 1/6/09
Blogger No One Does That is reading The Tunnel, 12/10/07
At The Millions, writer Mark Binelli's year in reading included Omensetterls Luck, "a perfect novel and the best thing I've read in a very long time." 12/3/08
At Flickr, Manikin tests out a pen and notebook w/ a quote from The Tunnel, 9/12/08
Hitherandthithering Waters is wrapped up in several Gass works, especiall Fiction and the Figures of LIfe, 11/14/08
Aristeia thinks Terry Gilliam is (one of) a cinematic version of WG, 11/13/08
Squandermania and Other Foibles notes a James Wood knock not included in the U.S. edition of his book, 11/10/08
Amaranthine blogs about Tests of Time, 11/7/08
The New York Times and the Sycamore Review note a Yaddo exhibit, which includes a 1969 photograph of a Guston-painted Gass, 10/24/08
SpliceToday highlights Gass as it laments the Nobel committee's "willful ignorance," 10/9/08
Like last year, Gass has been given 100/1 odds for the Nobel, 10/1/08 (via)
Art critic Kenneth Baker says Gass "knows how to treat a sentence," 10/1/08
To Report an Emergency, mourning Wallace, turns to "The Doomed in Their Sinking," 9/27/08
Backwards City quotes Gass (on Crane) in a remembrance of David Foster Wallace, 9/14/08
Cartoonist T. Motleyoffers a sketch of Gass (and Ben Marcus), 9/17/08
The American Comparative Literature Association says WG coined "metafiction," date unclear
Gass' Kohler appears in Wordsmith's "Word of the Day" email. The word? Resentment. 9/4/08
The Front Table is reading The Tunnel, 8/30/08
Blogger Confluence City takes a page out of his one-time teacher's book, 8/27/08
An excerpt of Wood's book (specifically the vs. Gass parts), 8/19/08
A photographer turns to Heart of the Heart, 8/8/08
Blogger I Just Read About That just read The Tunnel, 8/6/08
Gass mentioned in most obits of the man behind New American Review, 08/08
As the Way Opens blogger uses a treasured Gass passage to springboard into a post on world affairs, 8/12/08
7Fatcow has a Gass-prompted post on 'vengeful literature,' 7/15/08
BookFox includes The Tunnnel in a round-up called 'Cave Fiction,' 7/13/08
At One Story, Elliott Holt puts "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" at the top of his list of favorite short stories, 6/29/08
An interview with Tunnel translator Christophe Claro in the Summer 2008 Quarterly Conversation
An odd blog posting called "A close reading of the first sentence of William Gass's On Being Blue," 5/20/08
At the Riverfront Times' blog, a post, with audio, about Gass' remembrance of Jarvis Thurston, 3/24/08
At Book by Book, praise for The Writer's Brush, 3/21/08
Blogger Rauldesaldanha posts about hearing Gass read from his novel in progress in New York, 3/15/08
At Conversational Reading, WG as a counterpoint to James Wood, 2/29/08
Blogger Wisdom of the West notes James Wood's concerns with WG, 2/19/08
A "businessperson" blogs about talking up The Tunnel with an Israeli PhD student, 2/17/08
James Wood quotes WG on William James in The Gaurdian, 1/26/08
Glenn Kenny, of Premiere, recalls (and quotes from) an interview he did with Walker Percy, Grace Paley and WG in Glasgow in 1975, 1/16/08
Denis Donoghue nods twice in "On Eloquence," Wall Street Journal, 1/11/08
Blogger 37days gets an incredible Christmas present, 12/25/07
Gass' essay in The Writer's Brush is noted, Bloomberg.com, 12/19/07
Article about Granta's first issue notes editor Bill Buford publishing WG, 12/30/07
In an interview, Garth Risk Hallberg notes William and Catherine Gass, 12/11/07
Blogger Lux Mentis notes Gass' essay in The Writer's Brush, 12/11/07
Dennis Cooper names "The Pederson Kid" one of his favorite short stories, 12/11/07
Blog post notes the "Shelf Life" essay, 12/8/07
Critical Mass post "Remembering Stanley Elkin" includes a photograph of WG, 11/27/07
Tunnel-focused blog post in French (with several comments), 10/28/07
The Millions notes this site, 10/27/07
The Reading Experience notes this site, 10/26/07
The PEN America blog gets wind of this site, and posts a few links of its own, 10/24/07
Conversation Reading announces this site, 10/23/07
Chekhov's Mistress, reading Rilke, rec's a book of that title, 10/23/07
Blogger Acephalous recalls arguing with James Wood about WG, 10/14/07
Long blog posts -- part one and two -- in French, about The Tunnel, 10/07
Blog post in French, 3/1/07
Reply to n+1 nods to the Quarterly Conversation Tunnel audio review, 3/10/07
Identity Theory names Stephen Schenkenberg's review of A Temple of Texts one of its best reviews of 2006, 3/1/07
2GQ previews a Summer 2007 Writers Edge course on "Fiction as Architecture": "We shall look at how author William Gass and his architect-spouse Mary collaborate to find harmonies between sentences by Hemingway and houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, on the one hand, and those by Henry James and baroque palaces, on the other. "
Blog post about Gass's Tunnel tour in Paris, 2/28/07
A striking photo
Striking photograph, possibly from Gass's Paris press tour for The Tunnel
Blog post at The Millions on WG and E.L. Doctorow, 10/2/06
In a piece called "Whirl" for The Believer, Scott Eden recalls a weekly St. Louis newspaper of the same name (and mentions Wash U's Gass and Charles Newman); 10/06
Blog post from Mumpsimus about Gass' essay on Kafka; 07/18/06
Stephen Schenkenberg finds convergences between Menand, Wallace and Gass, 3/24/06
House of Mirth's blog post about attending Gass' Tunnel Audio Book event in NYC, 2/24/06
A post about The Tunnel from something in French called Jet Society, 3/23/06
Blog post about Temple of Texts, 3/23/06
Etel Adnan's book In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (review) was apparently inspired by WG
Dispatches from an Anti-War Zone writes one, two posts on In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.
Carl Shuker, in a December 6, 2006, blog post at Powell's, recalls meeting the author.
Blog post about the Tunnel, 10/30/06
What looks to be a French blogger, Tabula Rasa, has a William H. Gass category.
So does stephenschenkenberg.com.
St. Louis Business Journal article on photographer Michael Eastman notes his collaborations with Gass, 6/10/05
In a piece called "Night Driving" for The Believer, Christopher R. Beha quotes Gass on John Hawkes, 1/05
in The Age notes the following: "It was when she first read William Gass's story The Pederson Kid, Annie Proulx said, that she first understood that fiction possessed fierce powers: 'I read in a pale blue light that emanated from the page itself... The reader treads on the seemingly solid surface of the story only to see and feel something awful between the feet.'" 9/21/03
Blog post from Virtual Memories about seeing Gass read at the 92nd St. Y, 3/24/03
Slate article that mentions Gass promising his papers to Washington University, 2/18/02
First Lady Laura Bush quotes Gass in a presentation on libraries, 4/3/01
Nodded to in a Riverfront Times piece about Susan Bernofsky, a former WG student , 5/17/00
For Salon, David Foster Wallace publishes a small piece called "Overlooked: Five Direly Underappreciated Novels >1960." Among them Omesetter's Luck: "Gass' first novel, and his least avant-gardeish, and his best. Basically a religious book. Very sad. Contains the immortal line 'The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.' Bleak but gorgeous, like light through ice." 4/12/99
In an interview between KCRW's Michael Silverblatt and David Foster Wallace, the former says: "After around what was it -- fifteen years? -- of waiting for William H. Gass to finish 'The Tunnel,' I said to myself: Wouldn't it be wonderful if after all this time -- during which time we know that he's been working like a dog -- if he published a book and it was 77 pages long. For me, that would have been extremely heroic --" / DFW: Yeah. / MS: -- because, you know, it wouldn't have been one of those little tiny aperitif and toothpick kind of books -- it would have been the exudation -- / DFW: It would have been "The Philosophical Investigations" is what you're talking about, right? / MS: Exactly. / DFW: Yeah." 5/15/97
Included in "Missouri's Literary Heritage"