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“Style and Content Must Match”— William Gaddis on Voice and Risk in His Novels
From a brief 1982 interview with William Gaddis— Q: The pervasive and distinctive authorial voice of The Recognitions gives way in J R to a self-effacing voice that seems to serve only functional...
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“I Suppose You Become Addicted to a Certain Kind of Writing”— David Markson...
David Markson talked with Joseph Tabbi about (among many other things) his friendship with Malcolm Lowry, his love for William Gaddis’s The Recognitions, and how James Joyce teaches us to read. Read...
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William Gaddis on James Joyce
William Gaddis on James Joyce (via/more): I recall a most ingenious piece in a Wisconsin quarterly some years ago in which The Recognitions’ debt to Ulysses was established in such minute detail I was...
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“The Charade of the So-Called Free Market”— William Gaddis on What Moved Him...
From William Gaddis’s 1986 Paris Review interview: INTERVIEWER What moved you to write JR? GADDIS Even though I should have known from The Recognitions that the world was not waiting breathlessly for...
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William Gaddis on Hipsters: “An Ill-dressed, Underfed, Overdrunken Group of...
Love this passage from William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. Mocking “hipsterism” has been around forever (or at least 50 years): And by now they were at the door of the Viareggio, a small Italian bar of...
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I Riff–Again–on William Gaddis’s Enormous Novel JR (This Time After Finishing...
1. Let me point those of you who may care to my first riff on William Gaddis’s J R, which I wrote about half way into the book, and which will likely provide more context than I’m prepared to offer...
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A Riff on William Gaddis’s The Recognitions
1. I finished reading William Gaddis’s enormous opus The Recognitions a few days ago. I made a decent first attempt at the book in the summer of 2009, but wound up distracted not quite half way...
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Crews, Gaddis, Lish, Mutis (Books Acquired Late Last Week)
I picked up Harry Crews’s novel The Knockout Artist, which I hadn’t read, after his recent death. I was not the only person to pick up Crews books: the Crews section of my favorite used bookstore,...
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Book Shelves #21, 5.20.2012
Book shelves series #21, twenty-first Sunday of 2012: William T. Vollmann and David Foster Wallace Sorry about the glare in the photo above. As I seem to attest weekly, photography is hard....
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Occupy Gaddis (A William Gaddis Resource Page)
Why Occupy Gaddis? The Gaddis Annotations is, like, the source Biblioklept reviews J R (part 1) Biblioklept reviews J R (part 2) “Trickle-Up Economics: JR Goes to Washington” (1987 sequel to J R)...
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Some Annotations on the First Sentence of William Gaddis’s Last Novel, Agapē...
1. Let’s start with the what: Agapē Agape is the last novel by William Gaddis, that underread titan who gave us The Recognitions and J R. Agapē Agape was published in 2002, four years after Gaddis’s...
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Novels That Will Be Considered the Most Important Literary Works of the...
Novels That Will Be Considered the Most Important Literary Works of the Twentieth Century in the Year 2100 Nightwood, Djuna Barnes Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett Molloy, Samuel Beckett The Unnamable,...
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David Markson on Lowry, Gaddis, Vonnegut, Etc.
From David Markson’s 2007 interview in Conjunctions: Harlin: Incidentally, you wrote your M.A. thesis on Malcolm Lowry, a relatively unknown writer at the time, and became very friendly with him. What...
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