"The most dazzling essays and fiction by the most virtuosic prose stylist of our time." –The Washington Post
"The book is a banquet. . . . Joyous. . . . Superb." –
The Wall Street Journal "A body of writing that foils generic boundaries. . . . [Gass is] the supreme aesthetician." –
The Times Literary Supplement (London)
"Wonderful. . . . Vividly heartfelt. . . . The beautiful truth is that we need and can count on Gass for how he patiently investigates all forms." –
Bomb "A monument to Gass's brilliance as a postmodern fictioneer and a peerless genius of a critic." –
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"His final offering,
The William H. Gass Reader, is a gift. . . . Gass makes us want to read more, and to read better." –
The Millions
"A joy to read. . . . Eloquent, erudite." –
The New York Journal of Books
"A fitting grand finale to an impressive and influential career. . . . Here is the consciousness of a devoted, playful, skeptical intelligence. . . . Literature is finally catching up with him, and this compendious, literary extravaganza should spark a Gass revival." –
Kirkus Reviews