Description: Editor’s Note: This project originated as a collaboration between longtime friends William Gass and Michael Eastman. With their permission, I published the material as an iPad-only e-book in 2012…
Surface #35 Abstractions Arrive: Having Been There All the Time Text By William H. Gass | Photographs by Michael Eastman Stephen Schenkenberg
Editor’s Note: This project originated as a collaboration between longtime friends William Gass and Michael Eastman . With their permission, I published the material as an iPad-only e-book in 2012, garnering a small bit of attention from head-scratching literary folks who knew Gass as a print man through and through. In summer 2016, I removed the e-book from Apple’s bookstore and published it here on Medium. I’m pleased that many more readers, including several living abroad who emailed me to say they wishe
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