Stephen King and The Tunnel

From Bradford Morrow's "A Girandole for Mr. Gass," one of many tributes published in the Fall 2004 Review of Contemporary Fiction:

Even Stephen King, much to Bill's astonishment when I told him about it in Paris, many years later, loved The Tunnel and prefaced his own reading at Princeton, where I was guest-teaching at the time, with an opening remark to the crowded audience of academics, students, and leather-clad bikers, 'Have you heard of this guy, William H. Gass? He's unbelievable. Let me read you from his new book,' and so he did.