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William T. Vollmann

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  • Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco: 2/19-2/25

  • Jennifer Richardson
  • February 19, 2020
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable Portland: 4/19–4/25

  • Olivia Olivia
  • April 19, 2018
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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Propitiated Reading

  • Guia Cortassa
  • November 4, 2014
What I as a young enthusiast took for pell-mell freedom and chaos is in fact the result of careful orchestration and staging, within individual stories and in terms of the…
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Write like an Assassin

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 17, 2014
I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space. And I just shouldn’t worry about that…
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  • Features & Reviews

The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

  • Seth Fischer
  • August 2, 2009
This week, the book blogs are obsessed. They really, really want to tell you everything about William Vollman and Thomas Pynchon and their new wondrous masterpieces of weird. I love both…
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William T. Vollmann Made Me A San Franciscan

  • Michael Berger
  • July 2, 2009
One of the more anticipated summer novels of the season is also probably one of the longest, most disturbing and most intimidating: Imperial, William T. Vollman’s mammoth exploration of the…
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