Archive for the 'William Vollmann' Category
William T. Vollmann: The dispassionate chronicler
November 1st, 2009A profile in the LA Times.
I’m about half way through Imperial. It is clearly one of WTV’s best works.
Interview with WMV
October 15th, 2009From Claw Magazine. I only read a few lines, but it seems like a good one. One quote:
“What no one knows is that Vollmann just might be the nicest person alive.”
I’m beginning to think the same thing, evidenced by reading the first 400 pages of Imperial.
William T. Vollmann, an Author Without Borders
July 28th, 2009NYTimes – “Mr. Vollmann’s newest book, “Imperial,” which comes out from the Viking Press on Thursday, costs $55 and is 1,300 pages long — so heavy, he observed recently, that if you dropped it, you’d break a toe. A companion volume, to be published next month by powerHouse Books, contains some 200 photographs he took [...]
PEN USA announces 2008 literary award winners
November 13th, 2008CSmonitor – William Vollmann wins for “Poor People†in the “Research Nonfiction” category. I can’t wait to read Imperial.
William Vollmann Turns In Uncharacteristically Slim Children’s Book
April 1st, 2008Best 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 [...]
Hopping trains, riding rails in search of the real America
March 11th, 2008Vollmann hs a new book out. I just finished Poor People. I miss his long novels. Hopefully, one will appear soon.
