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"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . [These] pieces deal with Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein in relation to their thought; various species of the avant-garde from Pierre de Ronsard to Degas, Beckett and the Bauhaus; the exacting demands of autobiography; the Pulitzer Prize Committee's 'banal and hokey' choices in fiction; and the abyss between the moral viewpoints expressed in works of art and the lives of their creators. Gass's deeply felt essays . . . are quotable, flecked with fertile insights and a pleasure to read."-Publishers Weekly, starred review "These essays showcase precision intellectual workmanship, displaying intricate multifaceted models of how writing and thinking relate to life."-Kirkus Reviews

"These 19 essays showcase precision intellectual workmanship, displaying intricate, multifaceted models of who writing and thinking relate to life."

Kirkus, 06/15/1996

"Less theoretical than his previous collection, "Habitations of the Word", this new book starts off with a lament of the Pulitzer Prize of fiction and follows with a critique of many young author's weakness for the present tense... Shrewd, demanding and staunchly high-brow, Gass can say more with an image than lesser writers with 1000 words."

Washington Post Book World, 09/22/1996

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