Stewart Mitchell’s Reviews > The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised and Expanded Edition > Status Update

Nearing the end of this one - the prospect of finishing it and running low on “new” Gaddis material to discover is very sad.

Reading correspondence between Gaddis and movie producers - at first the idea of a JR film seems insane, but the more I think about it, some of Gaddis’s stuff might actually work on screen. The Recognitions in particular could make sense as a 4-5 part miniseries if handled by someone with the proper talent and respect for the material. Well, a girl can dream.

Interested to see how Carpenter’s Gothic came about since I’m not a big fan of that book and I think context might help me appreciate it a bit more.

As expected, these letters become infinitely more interesting after The Recognitions is published and Gaddis’s disillusionment grows. Steven Moore’s footnotes throughout are truly invaluable; the context he provides completes this as essentially an autobiography.