William Gaddis's Books
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Buffalo News, October 7, 2009
...a megaton of American literary history within, but you won?t find, for instance, Harper Lee, Henry Miller, William Gaddis or Donald Barthelme at all, just to mention four of the most wildly disparate and significant 20th century American writers I can...
Buffalo News, September 27, 2009
...a megaton of American literary history within, but you won?t find, for instance, Harper Lee, Henry Miller, William Gaddis or Donald Barthelme at all, just to mention four of the most wildly disparate and significant 20th century American writers I can...
Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2009
...re great reading, and a tour through the complete list will make you one erudite dinner party guest. "William Gaddis' 'JR' is the perfect novel for our new recession-driven world," you might drop, borrowing from Chad Post, or perhaps you'd note that...
The Independent, September 10, 2009
...What are you currently reading? David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. It's my Indian summer of Big Books. William Gaddis' JR is next. Choose a favourite author, and say why you like her/him Michael Ondaatje. The day after I finished The English Patient I woke up...
Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2009
...it come alive for me, Hurl." Some of the dialogue skews to the prolix, near-stammering sort that William Gaddis favored (in novels like "JR"). It works best when honed for comic effect, as in the speech of Vampyre-wannabe Phil: "This is where she keeps,...
The Onion AV Club, August 14, 2009
...hint, Mr. Hanks.) Zack Handlen I?d love to see Paul Thomas Anderson?s take on JR, by William Gaddis. The novel is about an 11-year-old kid who uses a payphone and some crap he ordered out of the back of a comic book to amass a massive financial...
Abu Dhabi National, July 29, 2009
...expect about the media cycle, as well as evading the demands of an increasingly psychologised and biographical culture. William Gaddis, the author of the cult novel The Recognitions and a diehard interview-ducker, complained of the tendency Ive...
13WMAZ, July 9, 2009
...A: I'm hoping to go to Amagansett. I think I'm going to take The Recognitions by William Gaddis, a mega-hard gigantic novel...
USA Today, July 5, 2009
...A: I'm hoping to go to Amagansett. I think I'm going to take The Recognitions by William Gaddis, a mega-hard gigantic novel...
Memphis Flyer, May 7, 2009
...isn't unique to Listen. Playwrights do it. And, as Mesler pointed out, so have novelists Henry Green, William Gaddis, and Donald Barthelme. What won't you find in Green, Gaddis, and Barthelme? How about 'My Continued Conversation with the Ghost of John...
Bookslut, May 4, 2009
...May 2009 John Zuarino features This month I finally bought an iPod for the first time (Ive been living with old hand-me-downs with little memory until now). When I finally transferred my entire music library to the tiny device, I felt mad with power -- I...
London Review of Books, January 30, 2009
...ingenious borrowers of European forms? but sterile imitators of those forms. To argue that Donald Barthelme, Ronald Sukenick, William Gaddis and company belong to some contemporary American avant-garde is to rationalise the fact that they have no...
The Australian, January 9, 2009
...and the pornographic, Bolano suggests several of his great contemporaries or antecedents: Thomas Pynchon, Robert Musil, James Joyce, William Gaddis, William Vollmann, Don DeLillo, say, over-reachers all. Men of the Big Book, because only a big book can...
Harpers Magazine, January 5, 2009
...poem. Equally, though, the selves can be the writer, veiled, fed and fitted into the work?s people. William Gaddis was asked which of his characters in The Recognitions was based most on himself. He replied, effectively, that he was all of them. It is...
New Statesman, November 27, 2008
...- who had arrived, that is, just as the bold innovations of postmodern novelists such as John Barth, William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon were being absorbed and neutered by the culture. Wallace believed that each of us is 'sort of marooned' inside our own...
WWeek, November 26, 2008
...degree also the interior life. I dont know why the novel has given up so much territory. In William Gaddis opus The Recognitions, his character Wyatt once said that if an author had more to say than was in the art, he would have put it in the art...
the Literary Saloon, October 2, 2009
...not make the cut -- though neither did (as I would have been inclined to vote for) any William Gaddis or Saul Bellow title. Last I checked, Flannery O'Connor was running away with the vote...
Three Percent - Article, September 22, 2009
...write two of these: one for Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and one for J R by William Gaddis.) Well, now that the 77 part overview is complete, 140 writers from across the country have selected the six best books from the list, and it’s up to...
Three Percent - Article, September 22, 2009
...write two of these: one for Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and one for J R by William Gaddis.) Well, now that the 77 part overview is complete, 140 writers from across the country have selected the six best books from the list, and it’s up to...
Jacket Copy, September 16, 2009
...re great reading, and a tour through the complete list will make you one erudite dinner party guest. "William Gaddis' 'JR' is the perfect novel for our new recession-driven world," you might drop, borrowing from Chad Post, or perhaps you'd note that...
Books 'N Border Collies, September 6, 2009
...William Faulkner Robert Lowell Isaac Bashevis Singer Eudora Welty John Gardner Gabriel Garcia Marquez Philip Larkin James Baldwin William Gaddis Harold Bloom Toni Morrison Alice Munro Peter Cary Stephen King You think this list is great? Wait until you...
biblioklept, September 2, 2009
...suppose. I’m currently making my way through another big book (okay, not as big as Proust’s), William Gaddis’s The Recognitions , and so far, Steven Moore’s A Reader’s Guide to William Gaddis’s The Recognitions has proven to be a valuable...
biblioklept, August 5, 2009
...About the same time I was finishing up James Wood’s How Fiction Works , I was also beginning William Gaddis ’s massive tome The Recognitions . So far the book is fantastic–I’m about 180 pages in–but it’s (very, very) long and there’s a big...
Three Percent - Article, August 5, 2009
...the post about Gravity’s Rainbow, the National Book Foundation just posted a short appreciation I wrote of William Gaddis’s J R. J R is the perfect novel for our new recession-driven world. Similar to Gravity’s Rainbow (which I wrote about...
Three Percent - Article, August 5, 2009
...the post about Gravity’s Rainbow, the National Book Foundation just posted a short appreciation I wrote of William Gaddis’s J R. J R is the perfect novel for our new recession-driven world. Similar to Gravity’s Rainbow (which I wrote about...
Three Percent - Article, August 5, 2009
...the post about Gravity’s Rainbow, the National Book Foundation just posted a short appreciation I wrote of William Gaddis’s J R. J R is the perfect novel for our new recession-driven world. Similar to Gravity’s Rainbow (which I wrote about...
Life and Times of a"New" New Yorker, June 11, 2009
...1975 Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone 1975 The Hair of Harold Roux - Thomas Williams 1976 JR - William Gaddis 1977 The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner 1977 Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance - Li Li Chen 1978 Blood Tie - Mary Lee Settle 1979 Going After...
Stuff, May 11, 2009
...Muriel Spark Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike Ragtime (1975) by E.L. Doctorow The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles ...
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes, May 5, 2009
...that I need to fill in. But I do read some contemporary. His idea of “contemporary,” though, is William Gaddis ‘ The Recognitions , a book that I suspect won’t fix the problem. Posted in Arthur Phillips...
pages turned, April 12, 2009
...Go Down, Moses The Snopes Trilogy Rachel Ferguson Alas, Poor Lady E.M. Forster Aspects of the Novel William Gaddis The Recognitions Elizabeth Gaskell North and South Amitar Ghosh Sea of Poppies George Gissing Born in Exile In the Year of Jubilee Sleeping...
Nathan's MySpace Blog, March 3, 2009
...use a paycheck or two. Does this mean that we should be expecting a new novel from William Gaddis anytime soon? Maybe The Recognitions 2: Recognize Harder ? Hmmmm? [Eds Note: Gaddis confirmed dead for over a decade now.]...
KnowRead/KnoWrite, January 26, 2009
...Ford A Passage to India by EM Forster The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen x @ The Recognitions by William Gaddis Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide The Odd Women by George Gissing New Grub...
A Work in Progress, January 25, 2009
...by Richard Ford A Passage to India by EM Forster The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Recognitions by William Gaddis Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide The Odd Women by George Gissing...
Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits, January 7, 2009
...discover some novel that I didn’t know anything about. It was at Stacey’s where I discovered William Gaddis, and where I purchased the dogeared copy of The Recognitions that still sits on my stacks. It was at Stacey’s where I first purchased books...
Conversational Reading, December 5, 2008
...might have missed: Listen to our audio interview with Aleksandar Hemon. Carter Scholz, writing in the tradition of William Gaddis and Richard Powers: Scholz’s familiarity with his material has led some readers to assume he is a disgruntled nuclear...
Kutukutubuku.com Blog, December 4, 2008
...Plunkett The Quiet American – Graham Greene The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis The Recognitions – William Gaddis The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch Self...
PrawfsBlawg, December 2, 2008
...the nation's preeminent college humor magazine. The Lampoon counts among its alumni numerous literary luminaries, from William Gaddis to George Plympton to John Updike. It has also sent too many writers to count off to Hollywood, where they've...
Incurable Logophilia, November 26, 2008
...put in a word here for the group read that Litlove has organized for The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis. I started the book a few days ago and am already intrigued by Gaddis’s writing – so many little tangents and what I can only call a...
