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Saturday
08Aug2009

A New Edition of Finding a Form

Dalkey Archive Press is publishing a lovely new edition of Gass' essay collection Finding a Form (cover illustration by Nicholas Motte, who was interviewed here and here about the work he's been doing for Dalkey, including other Gass covers). Personally, it's one of my favorite WG collections, behind Temple of Texts. First published in 1996, Form features the following: 

  • Pulitzer: The People's Prize (excerpt)
  • A Failing Grade for the Present Tense
  • Finding a Form
  • A Fiesta for the Form
  • Robert Walker
  • Ford's Impressionisms
  • The Language of Being and Dying
  • Nietzsche: The Polemical Philosopher 
  • At Death's Door: Wittgenstein
  • Ezra Pound
  • Autobiography
  • The Vicissitudes of the Avant-Garde
  • Exile
  • The Story of the State of Nature
  • Nature, Culture, and Cosmos
  • The Baby or the Botticelli
  • Simplicities 
  • The Muse of Prose
  • The Book As a Container of Consciousness

Check your local bookstore or an online retailer, but keep in mind that Dalkey's offering it at 20% off. Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading has been enjoying his copy.

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