Audio Interview with William Gass

William Gass, who has been trained as a philosopher of language, discusses what he read as a teenager that influenced him, and what kinds of courses he attended in college. He also informs us that he intended for his novel, Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife, to be an artistic manifesto, and what he means when he says that “a sentence has a soul.” Gass is also the author of Omensetter’s Luck and On Being Blue.

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio.