Paris Review: Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis

Posted by mdever on September 6, 2013 in archive, article, Publication, research, training

Paris Review: Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis

“Most people with scholarly inclinations will visit a novelist’s literary archive to follow the paper trails, as manifested through gathered correspondence, stray postcards, marked-upon stationery, and scattered drafts. A couple of months before the recent publication of his collected letters, I visited the William Gaddis Papers at Washington University in Saint Louis in search of something near the polar opposite.” Matthew Erickson.