What posthumous collection of essays by William Gaddis was published at the same time as Gaddis's last novel ublished posthumously in 2002 by Viking?
The Rush for Second Place
Title: Steven Moore (author)
Passage: Steven Moore (born May 15, 1951) is an American author and literary critic.  Best known as an authority on the novels of William Gaddis, he is also the author of the two-volume study "The Novel: An Alternative History."
Title: Carpenter's Gothic
Passage: Carpenter's Gothic is the title of the third novel by William Gaddis, published in 1985 by Viking.  The title connotes a "Gothic" tale of haunted isolation, in a milieu stripped of all pretensions.
Title: The Rush for Second Place
Passage: The Rush for Second Place is a posthumous collection of essays by William Gaddis.  Edited and introduced by Joseph Tabbi, it was published in 2002 by Penguin Press at the same time as Gaddis's last novel, "Agapē Agape".  The contents were published in Great Britain with "Agapē Agape" as "Agapē Agape and Other Writings" by Atlantic Books in 2004.
Title: The Recognitions
Passage: The Recognitions (1955), is the first novel by American author William Gaddis.  The novel was poorly received initially.  After Gaddis won a National Book Award in 1975 for his second novel, "J R", his first work gradually received new and belated recognition as a masterpiece of American literature.
Title: J R
Passage: J R is a novel by William Gaddis published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975.
Title: Jack Green (critic)
Passage: jack green (the name was spelled with lower-case letters) is the pseudonym of Christopher Carlisle Reid (born 1928), an American literary critic who was a great defender of the work of William Gaddis.  Reid—who took the name from a racing form after he quit his job to become a freelance critic—particularly admired Gaddis' 1955 novel "The Recognitions", which flopped upon being published.  Reid/green believed that the commercial failure of the hardcover edition of Gaddis' novel was the result of it having been panned by literary critics.  Reid/green's faith in Gaddis was borne out when "The Recognitions" was chosen as one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005.
Title: Agapē Agape
Passage: Agapē Agape is a novel by William Gaddis.  Published posthumously in 2002 by Viking with an afterword by Joseph Tabbi, "Agapē Agape" was Gaddis' fifth and final novel.  It was published in Great Britain with the contents of "The Rush for Second Place" as "Agapē Agape and Other Writings" by Atlantic Books in 2004.
Title: Mr. Difficult
Passage: "Mr. Difficult", subtitled "William Gaddis and the problem of hard-to-read books", is a 2002 essay by Jonathan Franzen that appeared in the 9/30/2002 issue of "The New Yorker".  It was reprinted in the paperback edition of "How to Be Alone" without the subtitle.
Title: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Passage: The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal published by Dalkey Archive Press.  It features a variety of fiction, reviews and critical essays on literature that has an experimental, avant-garde or subversive bent.  Founded in 1980 by the publisher John O'Brien, the The Review of Contemporary Fiction originally focused upon American and British writers who had been overlooked by the critical establishment, and in this manner the Review succeeded in bringing new critical attention to writers such as William Gaddis, Gilbert Sorrentino, Paul Metcalf, Nicholas Mosley, Donald Barthelme, and many others.  In 1984, in order to begin reprinting some of these authors, John O'Brien founded Dalkey Archive Press.
Title: A Frolic of His Own
Passage: A Frolic of His Own is a book by William Gaddis, published by Poseidon Press in 1994.  It was his fourth novel and it won his second U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Agapē Agape The Rush for Second Place