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A new collection of essays by a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author and critic shares insights into the relationship of a writer's life and work, literary language, history, culture, biography as a form of literature, and other topics. 10,000 first printing.
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William Gass has been a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University in Indiana and at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is Director of the International Writers Center.
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