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RootsWeb: GADDIS-L Archive (February 2001)
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Extractions: GADDIS-L Archives: February 2001 Display in threaded chronological order with names with dates [GADDIS] making changes by Walter Gaddis [GADDIS] updates on webpage by Walter Gaddis [GADDIS] William Gaddis, Group 8 by Jo Autrey [GADDIS] Photo Album by [GADDIS] Carson/Gaddis marriage by Walter Gaddis [GADDIS] Bertha Clay (Gaddis) MAYFIELD by Patty Gaddis [GADDIS] section searches by Walter Gaddis [GADDIS] Sylvia MAYFIELD by Donna Hamm [GADDIS] Arlie MAYFIELD by Donna Hamm [GADDIS] SUCCESS!
Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview With William Gaddis
An Interview with william gaddis By John Kuehl and Steven Moore. Whenwilliam gaddis agreed to let us interview him, he elected the
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Extractions: Q: There seems to be a noticeable undercurrent of autobiography in your fiction. Both Willie in "The Recognitions" and especially Thomas Eigen in "J R" bear more than a passing resemblance to their author. Yet you are also one of the most reticent of writers, avoiding publicity of any kind. What are your views on the place of autobiography in artistic creation and to what extent is Thomas Eigen a portrait of the artist? Q: You said that you enjoy writing, but you have never discussed your writing habits. Do you keep a journal or notebooks? Do you have preferences as to when and where you work, etc? WG: Have I said I enjoy writing? Some high moment and I probably did, but it's nearer what Pascal, was it he? as I have it at second hand, said about no man differing more from another than he does from himself at another time. That incidentally may better explain a phenomenon like "The Brothers Karamazov." It certainly helps to explain my distaste for interviews, though this one may serve to set the record straight on a few points. Q: It's been said "The Recognitions" was edited down to its present size from a much longer manuscript. Is it true that you fundamentally agreed with the cuts suggested by your editors at Harcourt, Brace and World? How did the abandoned material differ from that in the final version? Have you come to regret any of the deletions? Did "J R" go through a similar process of editing? What part do revisions play in your compositional method?
CONJUNCTIONS A Web Exclusive Remembering Mr. Gaddis Steven Moore
Tributes to william gaddis (as mentioned above) by Sarah gaddis, william H. Gass,Julian Schnabel, DA Pennebaker, and Joy williams will all appear in the print
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Extractions: A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE was held May 6th for the late William Gaddis, the esteemed novelist who died last December. The course of my life was irrevocably changed by my discovery of his work in 1975, and after nearly 25 years of writing and thinking about his titanic novels, I felt compelled to attend this tribute to the man who, I am now convinced, is the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century. The tribute was held in the august auditorium of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, into which Gaddis was inducted in 1984. As it happens, the last time I had seen Gaddis was in the same building five years earlier, an awards ceremony where Gaddis and the other members of the Academy sat on the stage (like the faculty at a graduation), facing us like totems guarding the gates of American literature. Gracing the stage this time was a smaller but well-chosen group: Sarah Gaddis, his daughter, began the event on an elegiac note, almost breaking down in tears as she confessed how difficult it was to adjust to the absence created by her father's death. (She once wrote an autobiographical novel, Swallow Hard , largely about her relationship to him.) She was followed by gentleman-novelist Louis Auchincloss, who gave an overview of Gaddis's achievement (in a sumptuous Anglo-American accent) and paid tribute to his vast erudition. Auchincloss is known for his legal novels, but he admitted Gaddis's knowledge of the law far exceeded his.
Bibliographie William Gaddis, Carpenter's Gothic
william gaddis Carpenter's Gothic Indications bibliographiques, PierreYvesPétillon. Par william gaddis romans. The Recognitions. 1955.
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Extractions: William GADDIS: Carpenter's Gothic Par William Gaddis: romans New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975 Poseidon Press, 1994 Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Penguin, 1995. Traduit par Jean Lambert. Du monde entier. Gallimard, Paris, 1973. Traduit par Marc Cholodenko. Aussi par William Gaddis "Trickle-Up Economics: J R Goes to Washington." New York Times Book Review, 25 October 1987, 29 Interviews de William Gaddis Moore, Steven. 1989. Johnston John. 1990. Comnes, Gregory, 1994. Knight, Christopher J. 1997. Wolfe, Peter. 1997 Allen, Bruce. "Gaddis's Dense Satire of Greed Is Often Amusing, Mostly Confusing". The Christian Science Monitor, September 17, 1985 Bradbury, Malcolm. "The House That Gaddis Built". Book World-The Washington Post, July 7, 1985 Comnes, Gregory. "A Patchwork of Conceits: Perspective and Perceptions in Carpenter's Gothic". Critique 30.1 (Fall 1988) 13-26 The Ethics of Indeterminacy in the Novels of William Gaddis. University Press of Florida, 1994. 188 p. Gass, William. Introduction. The Recognitions. By William Gaddis. New York: Penguin, 1993. V-XV. Sperone, Al. "Mr Gaddis Builds His Dream House". Village Voice, 13 August 1985, 43, 45.
Genealogy Data Page 50 (Family Pages)
gaddis, william Gender Male Family Spouse Briles, Charity Birth ABT 1845 ,, NC Gender Female Parents Father Briles, Solomon Mother Byrns, Charity
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The New York Review Of Books: ARRESTS IN POLAND
Charyn, Robert Coover, Robert Creeley, Marcus Cunliffe, Stephen Dixon, EL Doctorow,Raymond Federman, Leslie Fiedler, william gaddis, william Gass, Allen
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Extractions: August 14, 1986 Letter To the Editors Walter Abish, Edward Albee, John Ashbery, Stanislaw Baranczak, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, Joseph Brodsky, Jerome Charyn, Robert Coover, Robert Creeley, Marcus Cunliffe, Stephen Dixon, E.L. Doctorow, Raymond Federman, Leslie Fiedler, William Gaddis, William Gass, Allen Ginsberg, Janusz Glowacki, Sinda Gregory, Ihab Hassan, Richard Howard, Irving Howe, John Irving, Harold Jaffe, Frederick R. Karl, Ken Kesey, Jerome Klinkowitz, Larry McCaffery, Joseph McElroy, Norman Mailer, Clarence Major, Harry Mathews, Peter Matthiessen, Leonard Michaels, Arthur Miller, Bradford Morrow, Joyce Carol Oates, Maggie Paley, Walker Percy, Robert Pinsky, Philip Roth, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag, Michael Stephens, Rose Styron, William Styron, Ronald Sukenick, Calvin Tomkins, Frederic Tuten, Kurt Vonnegut, Anne Waldman, Paul West
The New York Review Of Books: BOYCOTT TABA
Bishop, Vance Bourjaily, Karen Brazell, Olga Carlisle, John Clive, Malcolm Cowley,Douglas Day, Robert Fitzgerald, william gaddis, william Gass, Andrew Hacker
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Extractions: October 11, 1979 Letter To the Editors As former winners and judges of the National Book Awards, we should like to comment on the recent and ominous announcement by the Association of American Publishers of their revised book award program, henceforth to be known as The American Book Awards and administered by a new organization called The Academy of The American Book Awards (TABA). Apart from the increase in the number of categories, which seems harmless in principle, the main purpose of the change appears to be to transfer decision-making from those who write books to those who sell and buy them. In the past, the National Book Awards were made by a jury of the winners' peers: novelists selected the winning novel, poets the volume of poems, historians the work of history, and so on. Over the years, this policy often resulted in the choice of books which had not been ballyhooed by large publishers and were not necessarily well known; the 1978 fiction and history winners, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato (Delacorte Press) and Richard Beale Davis' Intellectual Life in the Colonial South , 1585-1760 (University of Tennessee Press) are only two of many examples. The selection of such titles over those with mammoth advertising budgets, paperback campaigns, and film sales has been extremely irritating to some people in the book business. At this year's award festivities, the judges were several times approached by publishers and booksellers who expressed surprise and disgust at their neglect of various "more important" best-sellers.
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Beyond 1/95: Scott Bradfield, Kinky Friedman, William Gaddis, Thomas Gifford, Th
violence. Anybody remember Kinky'sumunusual musical persona fromthe early 70's? gaddis, william A FROLIC OF HIS OWN. Described
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Extractions: This grim, gripping first novel is written from experienceAngle worked the West Virginia coal mines, and, in fact, lost the use of an arm there. The voice of her narrator, Portia Crowe, who returns to such roots after finding college largely irrelevant, rings true. American Realism survives in this reality-check of a book. Talk about a life-change: after 69-year-old Emma O'Hallahan shotguns her miserable husband Marvin, she discovers thought, sensation, sex (with the banker Mr. Sullivan, who seems also to have offed his spouse). This sardonic comic novel takes fire at most of America's weirdnesses as embodied in California. Plus: guest appearance by Mike Douglas. For another "Beyond" fable from Bradfield, see: Animal Planet This fatalistic romance novel has more device (e. g. a novel-within-a-novel, synchronicity problems) than substance. But then, do people really want substance (witness Bridges of Madison County , a "Beyond" entry before it became a summa-cum-bestseller) in romance fiction? Worth a shot for those who might find "literary romance" appealing.
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Frigatezine- Welcome To The Frigate Shop: Essays/Criticism
Paperback, 208 pgs. gaddis, william. Carpenter's Gothic. Penguin USA, 1999. Paperback,272 pgs. gaddis, william. JR. Penguin USA, 1993. Paperback, 725 pgs.
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Salon Books | Remembering William Gaddis, Neglected Master
Remembering 'The Recognitions' and 'JR' author william gaddis, one of themost brilliant and least read of American novelists. By Carter Scholz.
http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/1998/12/18feature.html

Extractions: Linked short stories, from the author of "Cowboys Are My Weakness," about a restless female photographer and her penchant for selfish, distant men T A B L E T A L K Do you have a book wish list? What's on it? How did you go about compiling it? Join the discussion in Table Talk's Books area Visit barnesandnoble.com for books by William Gaddis BY CARTER SCHOLZ W illiam Gaddis was esteemed by his peers like few other contemporary novelists, but his audience never matched his reputation. He wrote just four novels, but they are of such density, variety and accomplishment as to dwarf lengthier bibliographies. Each is an artifice of uncommon structural and moral integrity. Gaddis, winner of the National Book Award in 1976 and again in 1994 and the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship in 1982, died Wednesday at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 75. Deeply concerned with the values by which people live, Gaddis filled his work with fierce anger and bitter humor at how people fail themselves and others, at all forms of laziness and greed and stupidity. His books overflow with bleak sorrow, outrage and a desperate laughter that provides the only refuge in a world where most people spend their best efforts on tasks not worth doing.
National Book Award Winners
Stories (1951) Faulkner, william A Fable (1955) Franzen, Jonathan The Corrections(2001) Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain (1997) gaddis, william JR (1976
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Extractions: Winners in alphabetical order list of literary prizes Julia Glass Three Junes Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Susan Sontag In America Ha Jin Waiting Alice McDermott Charming Billy Charles Frazier Cold Mountain Andrea Barrett Philip Roth Sabbath's Theater William Gaddis Frolic of his Own E. Anne Proulx The Shipping News Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses Norman Rush Mating Charles Johnson Middle Passage John Casey Spartina Pete Dexter Paris Trout Larry Heinemann Pacos Story E.L. Doctorow Worlds Fair Don DeLillo White Noise Ellen Gilchrist Victory Over Japan Alice Walker The Color Purple John Updike Rabbit is Rich Wright Morris Plains Song William Styron Sophies Choice Tim OBrien Going After Cacciato Mary Lee Settle Blood Ties Wallace Stegner The Spectator Bird William Gaddis J.R.
Agape Agape - William Gaddis
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Agape Agape by williamgaddis. A Literary Saloon Site of Review. Agape Agape by william gaddis.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/gaddisw/aagape.htm

Extractions: Review Summaries Source Rating Date Reviewer Daily Telegraph Alan Marshall Entertainment Weekly C Troy Patterson The Guardian Peter Dempsey The LA Times Merle Rubin NY Press Jim Knipfel The NY Times Book Rev. Sven Birkerts A J. Peder Zane San Francisco Chronicle A+ Andrew Ervin The Spectator A John de Falbe TLS Stephen Burn VLS Fall/2002 Ed Park Wilson Quarterly Fall/2002 Paul Maliszewski
The Rush For Second Place - William Gaddis
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Rush for SecondPlace by william gaddis. The Rush for Second Place by william gaddis.
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Extractions: "Here you'll learn that Gaddis can't finish even a short nonfiction piece without breaking into a rant. You'll find essays consisting of strung-together quotes that you have to read carefully, twice, before you conclude that no argument (or, indeed, logic) is hidden in the string. You'll see that, sure enough, literary difficulty can operate as a smoke screen for an author who has nothing interesting, wise, or entertaining to say." -
Agape Agape By William Gaddis - R A I N T A X I O N L I N E
william gaddis. Viking ($23.95). by Vincent Czyz. he first book william gaddispublished, at the age of 32, was his 956page masterpiece The Recognitions.
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Extractions: Winter 2002/2003 Agape Agape William Gaddis Viking ($23.95) by Vincent Czyz he first book William Gaddis published, at the age of 32, was his 956-page masterpiece The Recognitions . Unfortunately, reviewers weren't quite ready for a multi-layered work of genius from an author making his literary debut and, one after another, they wrote reviews that were generally incompetent, cribbing both from each other and from the book's flap copy. In fact, the critical ineptitude that surrounded The Recognitions was so flagrant, it inspired a book of its own, Jack Green's riotously incisive Fire the Bastards! The commercial failure of The Recognitions was largely responsible for the fact that nothing was heard from Gaddis for a full two decades when he reemerged with the publication of JR , for which he won the National Book Award. He took another National Book Award with his fourth book, A Frolic of his Own . Now, four years after Gaddis's death, Viking has released Agape Agape "No but you see I've got to explain all this because I don't, we don't know how much time there is left ..." So begins this slender volume of 96 pages (with a 13-page afterword). Although to all appearances complete, there is a sense of urgency in the work all the more compelling for its real-life parallel: Gaddis knew, while writing it, that it was to be the final fiction he would bequeath to the world. Agape Agape is not so much a novel or even a novella as it is a dramatic monologue in which many of the concerns first expounded in
Links To Literature: William Gaddis
GENERAL RESOURCES. william gaddis. New York State Writers Institute williamgaddis. Photo, an overview of his life and works, and excerpted passages.
http://www.linkstoliterature.com/gaddis.htm

Extractions: LINKS TO LITERATURE HOME BULLETIN BOARD LITERATURE NEWSLETTERS SUGGEST-A-SITE ... SEARCH THE WEB NEW! Enter to win a $100 Amazon.com Gift Certificate simply by referring friends to this site! To begin earning entries in the next drawing, please visit our Refer-A-Friend Page GENERAL RESOURCES ONLINE DISCUSSIONS GENERAL RESOURCES William Gaddis Information on novels, selected primary and secondary bibliographies, selected reading guides, and links to further resources. [Not frequently updated] New York State Writers Institute: William Gaddis Photo, an overview of his life and works, and excerpted passages. Scriptorium: William Gaddis Photo, overview of life and works, and links. Catharton: William Gaddis Selected links and bibliography. ONLINE DISCUSSIONS Gaddis Mailing List William Gaddis Forum Frigate Message board, with a link to a chat. Need a second opinion? Try Search the Web. GoTo Half.com Audible.com Amazon ... eBay
William Gaddis: Letzte Instanz (Buchtipp)
Dieter WunderlichBuch- und Filmtipps, Navigation, william gaddis Letzte Instanz. Gerechtigkeit?
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Extractions: Dieter Wunderlich: Buch- und Filmtipps Navigation Es werden seitenlangen Gerichtsurteile zitiert, deren Rabulistik für den juristisch unbedarften Leser nicht immer einfach zu verstehen ist. Umso lebendiger sind die Dialoge zwischen den Personen. Die wörtliche Rede mit ihren teilweise abgehackten und unvollständigen Sätzen und oft missverständlichen Formulierungen ist wie vom Mund abgeschaut, sodass die bei den Protagonisten herrschende meistens hektische und aufgeregte Stimmung gut nachzuvollziehen ist.
Carpenter's Gothic | William Gaddis
CARPENTER'S GOTHIC by william gaddis. INTRODUCTION. Early in Carpenter's Doyou agree or disagree? ABOUT william gaddis. One of the
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Extractions: by William Gaddis INTRODUCTION Early in Carpenter's Gothic, the third of William Gaddis's five novels, Paul Booth says to his wife, Liz, "trying to put things together, build something like your father did we both know that's what it's about" (p. 18). For Paul, "trying to put things together" means somehow procuring money from an outlandish and absurdly complicated scheme involving everything from a thoroughly corrupt evangelist to mineral rights in Africa. "Trying to put things together" is also a fair description of Gaddis's method of composition and the task he presents to readers. Carpenter's Gothic consists primarily of the unattributed speech of its characters, who are frequently interrupted not only by one another, but also by the background noise of daily life television, radio, ringing telephones, and the printed word that constantly inundates them in the form of junk mail, newspapers, magazines, and books. The effect is one of unfiltered sound; only occasionally does the third-person narrative voice step in to situate readers in time and place. Interpretation becomes not only a matter of choosing among possible meanings; readers must first sift through what often seems a random onslaught of words. Carpenter's Gothic Not only does Paul never hear her, but he also repeatedly chastises Liz for not listening to him. McCandless, perhaps the novel's most perplexing character, arrives to fill the void created by Paul's complete self-absorption. Sometimes he seems to be a parody of the seductive, mysterious stranger with a murky past. But he nevertheless engages Liz's mind and imagination. It becomes difficult to decide whether McCandless is a viable but fleeting alternative to the world Paul imposes on Liz or a sinister figure who preys on a woman feeling trapped. Mechanically assuming the role of the distant landlord on the unexpected appearance of Liz's brother Billy, McCandless says to Liz, "afraid I disturbed you Mrs. Booth" (p. 196). The phrase continues to echo in her head after McCandless leaves, the verb taking on a more ominous tone than McCandless might have intended.
Calls For Papers: NEMLA -- William Gaddis
NEMLA william gaddis. From Richard Frolicking Reproductions williamgaddis' Literary Thieveries in _A Frolic of His Own_. Call for
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