William Vollmann Turns In Uncharacteristically Slim Children’s Book

April 1st, 2008

Best April Fool’s day post so far, from Edward Champion’s Return of the Return of the Reluctant - “The book, entitled Shooting Guns at the Gnus, is also illustrated by Vollmann. Vollmann hoped that the book would encourage young children to start firing guns early, so that they could get a sense of “what it means to be free” at a very early age.”