BY SPECIAL REQUEST, WILLIAM THOMAS GADDIS

By special request: As many of you know, novelist William Gaddis was a village resident in the 1960's. Your editor finally got around to re-reading his first book, THE RECOGNITIONS. It's not an easy read but is worth the trip and highly recommended.

For those who don't know,....William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Gaddis is widely considered one of the first and most important American postmodern writers. READ MORE ABOUT HIM HERE.

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