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Illustrations by Gass for the design and layout of The Tunnel:diagrams of the tunnel; corresponding outline of the chapters; sketches of "The Pennants of Passive Attitudes and Emotions," Party of the Disappointed People "PdP" banners and "the…

William H. Gass reading "The Cost of Everything" fromThe Tunnel, at an Academic Committee Reading in the Women's Building on the Washington University in St. Louis Campus. This file is only the first hour of the reading/recording. An unidentified…

William H. Gass reading "At Death's Door," fromThe Tunnel, at Duff's Restaurant in St. Louis, as part of a collaborative River Styx and International Writers Center reading, with Lorin Cuoco and visiting poet Anton Shammas.

The first ten pages of the first typed draft of The Tunnel

An announcement for readings by John Hawkes, William Gass and John Barth at the Centre Culturel Americain in Paris, France. Autograph notes by Gass on the verso.

Cassette tape cover for William Gass Reading “The Old Folks” (short story) and The Tunnel (excepts) Columbia, MO: American Audio Prose Library, 1981

River Styx, Number 21, 1986. A special issue devoted to “Family Album,” a slide lecture by Gass that was later adapted as a section of The Tunnel.

American Book Award for The Tunnel, 1996

Dust jacket for the first edition ofThe Tunnel by William H. Gass, New York, Knopf, 1995.

Two letters and one document outlining Gass's layout and design intructions for The Tunnel, some of which were rejected by the publisher.