11 December 2017
William H. Gass, author of Omensetter's Luck, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, and Middle C, died on Wednesday at the age of 93 at his home in St. Louis. Gass was a boundary-breaking experimental writer (please read In the Heart of the Heart of the Country) as well as a critic, essayist and philosophy professor. Most importantly, Gass was a reigning master of the art of the sentence, and every one he wrote, he wrote with singular purpose. "If I am anything as a writer, that is what I am: a stylist," he told The Paris Review. "I am not a writer of short stories or novels or essays or whatever. I am a writer, in general. I am interested in how one writes anything."
