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In Tests of Time (2003), Gass shares his thoughts about writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion, including essays on classic writers and contemporaries, literary "lists" and their use, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, and the First Amendment. First published by University of Chicago Press.

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Of all living literary figures, William Gass may count as the most daringly scathing and most assertively fecund: in language, in ideas, in intricacy of form; above all in relentless fury... -- Cynthia Ozick New York Times Book Review

Tests of Time – Essays

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      Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9781628970388, 978-1628970388
      ISBN10: 1628970383

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      Book Synopsis
      In Tests of Time (2003), Gass shares his thoughts about writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion, including essays on classic writers and contemporaries, literary "lists" and their use, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, and the First Amendment. First published by University of Chicago Press.

      Trade Review
      Of all living literary figures, William Gass may count as the most daringly scathing and most assertively fecund: in language, in ideas, in intricacy of form; above all in relentless fury... -- Cynthia Ozick New York Times Book Review

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