Finding a Form Essays
"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein . . . the avant garde . . . the demands of autobiography; the Pulitzer Prize Committee's . . . choices in fiction . . . flecked with fertile insights and a pleasure to read".--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review. A 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
Reviews
Daryl Houston@dllh
I skimmed a few of these, skipped a couple, and really enjoyed a few. The title essay did it for me, and I also liked "Ezra Pound" (which made me feel like less of a philistine for my early impressions of the guy many years ago), "Simplicities," and "The Music of Prose."
Lina.@murmuration
Will Vunderink@willvunderink
Seth Kalback@skalback
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