21. An Interview With William T. Vollmann william T. Vollmann I was born in Los Angeles. My dad was a graduate student there, and we didn t have a lot of money. We lived in this slum neighborhood. http://www.altx.com/int2/william.t.vollmann.html

William T. Vollmann : I was born in Los Angeles. My dad was a graduate student there, and we didn't have a lot of money. We lived in this slum neighborhood. There were these reconditioned army barracks that got really, really hot in the summertime. There wasn't any air conditioning or anything. It was called Veteran's housing. It was in Westwood. I think a freeway has been built over it since. There were lots of low income families. I was kind of afraid of them. I used to get beaten up a little bit when I went outside, but I made some friends. My family was there until I was about five. Then we moved to New Hampshire where my dad had a teaching job. Then we moved around after that. AL: When did you think that you would become a writer? Could you talk about your early days? WTV AL : So you wrote your first book about Afghanistan around that time, which was finally published a year ago. You came back to San Francisco. How did You Bright and Risen Angels come about? WTV AL That book was very strange and psychedelic. But soon after that, you turned to more documentary modes of writing with Rainbow Stories. What was the genesis of that much different book? WTV I guess it was because I was able to meet this guy, Ken Miller, the street photographer. At that time, he was in his heyday on Haight street. He knew everybody. Everybody knew him. He'd just go out, and all the alcoholics would call out "Hey Ken!" He'd just shaved his head, become a skinhead, and he lived with the skinheads. So they kind of liked him. He took all their pictures.

22. The Vollmann Club -- William T. Vollmann The Vollmann Club is an online collaborative effort to read all of william T. Vollmann s books and place Mr. Vollmann s work into perspective. http://www.edrants.com/wtv/

@import "vollmann.css"; What is the Vollmann Club? The Vollmann Club is an online collaborative effort to read all of William T. Vollmann's books and place Mr. Vollmann's work into perspective. Participating sites include Black Market Kidneys Conversational Reading The Happy Booker Rake's Progress , and Return of the Reluctant . The project began after several people saw Mr. Vollmann at book signings, got a bit excited, and realized that they needed to read more of his work. The only requirement to joining the Vollmann Club is that a member must have seen Mr. Vollmann in the flesh. Are You Insane? Hasn't Vollmann Written Something Like 60 Books? We're passionate about literature. So, yes, we're insane to some degree. And while Mr. Vollmann is a very prolific writer (rivaling only Joyce Carol Oates), splitting the books among five people isn't nearly as unwieldy as it seems. Plus, there's no hard deadline to finishing his books, which means that we can all go about our lives while pursuing this. Who is William T. Vollmann?

23. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: William T. Vollmann william T. Vollmann was born in Los Angeles in 1959 and attended Deep Springs College and Cornell University. He is the author of, among others, http://www.mcsweeneys.net/authorpages/vollmann/vollmann.html

In honor of The Believer 's 50th issue, every new Believer subscription this week will include a free sheet of temporary tattoos , featuring the work of Raymond Pettibon, Marcel Dzama, the Paper Rad collective, and many other artists of note. W I L L I A M T . V O L L M A N N . Biography William T. Vollmann was born in Los Angeles in 1959 and attended Deep Springs College and Cornell University. He is the author of, among others, The Atlas (winner of the 1997 PEN Center West Award), You Bright and Risen Angels The Rainbow Stories , and a series of novels entitled Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, about the collision between the native populations of North America and their colonizers and oppressors. In addition, Vollmann's works of nonfiction include An Afghanistan Picture Show , which describes his crossing into Afghanistan with a group of Islamic commandos in 1982, and Rising Up and Rising Down , a seven-volume treatise on violence that was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker Esquire Spin Gear , and Granta . In 1999

24. Literary Kicks : Overrated Writers, Part Three: William Vollmann Anyways, since you guys hate long stuff, I’d reccomend checking out that william T. Vollmann Reader/Collection that is out there, it has a nice hodgepodge http://www.litkicks.com/OverratedVollmann

Literary Kicks Opinions , Observations and Research We're incredibly proud of this book, the first anthology of LitKicks writings including selections from our poetry and fiction boards. The book was listed as a top poetry pick for 2004 by about.com. Bob Holman states that LitKicks has "found a new way to make an anthology open, free, and eternally interesting." The best way to buy a copy is on Amazon or visit this page to buy the book directly from us. Overrated Writers, Part Three: William Vollmann by Levi Asher June 7, 2006 4:55 am FICTION NEWS OVERRATED WRITERS POSTMODERNISM I have tried hard, so very hard, to appreciate William Vollmann, a wildly original postmodernist obsessed with history and human aggression who is considered a great intellect by several people I respect. I've eagerly bought his thick, intimidating books, and I have put in solid time trying to read them. I will not try anymore. William Vollmann is, in my opinion, the David Blaine of literature. It's all an endurance act. Can a skinny kid with pimples and glasses really write a seven volume chronicle of the settlement of North America , follow it with a 3,300 page history of human violence

25. A Day At Vollmann's Studio william T. Vollmann appears at the door just as I turn in to his driveway. It s raining, so he helps me carry my camera bags in. http://esposito.typepad.com/TQC_6/Vollmanns_Studio.html

A Day at Vollmann's Studio By Terri Saul William T. Vollmann appears at the door just as I turn in to his driveway. It's raining, so he helps me carry my camera bags in. I offer up a Christmas cactus and a box of tangerines. Vollmann has a Christmas cactus story, and after he first checks that I've locked my car, he tells it: as a child he saved one segment of a Christmas cactus, and it lived, soon to germinate in his rooftop garden. Although Vollmann is best known for his writing, I am here to see his visual artwork . I'm prepared to talk art all day long, but with Vollmann the divide between the arts is always fluid: our conversation ranges from Noh theater to contemporary music to his novels and everything in between. Once inside Vollmann's studio I'm confronted with walls that are covered, salon style, with art. Just past women's and men's restrooms painted in rough strokes of bold color (in the restrooms hang longtime Vollmann collaborator Ken Miller's prostitute photos) there's a dark bedroom/library complete with Vollmann's oft-mentioned meat-locker closet. After that an art-lined corridor where art hangs on blonde wood runners, ready to be critiqued. Over the studio entrance is a collection of Soviet propaganda posters. It appears that Vollmann's prodigious writings are matched by his capacity to produce and collect visual art. Inside the studio there's art equipment everywhere, much of it looking like art itselfvintage, accordion-shaped view cameras, vacuum powered printing machines, an ultraviolet cyanotype exposure unit, darkroom trays, an enlarger, baker's trays lined with drying prints, and a work bench as long as a strip mall parking lot.

26. Bookslut | An Interview With William T. Vollmann william T. Vollmann has experienced more than most writers would care to in a lifetime. He has watched his friend shot and killed right in front of him in a http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_11_006908.php

@import "/c/style.css"; @import "/c/style.css"; Bookslut Home Features Reviews Columns ... Advertise November 2005 Tony Dushane features An Interview with William T. Vollmann William T. Vollmann has experienced more than most writers would care to in a lifetime. He has watched his friend shot and killed right in front of him in a war zone, he loves prostitutes (and has a very understanding wife) and has been known to toke on some crack. His unique voice produces seemingly effortless prose. His back catalogue is massive and includes the seven volume 3,352 page work, Rising Up and Rising Down I hung out with Vollmann at his hotel room at The Rex on Post St. in San Francisco during the book tour of Europe Central Oh yeah, absolutely. Mornings? Whenever I can, morning, noon and night. You definitely have a unique voice. For a beginning writer, how would someone get to that type of unique voice or how did you acquire that yourself? Rising up and Rising Down Europe Central In a way. You know in Europe Central it’s too easy just to say, "Oh, the Nazis were terrible, the Stalinists were awful." And that’s true, but where do you go from there? If you can realize the deeper truth, which is not only that were they terrible but if I were born in that time and place, I probably would’ve been one. And even if I resisted with all my being, I would still have characteristics of one, no matter what I did.

27. Scriptorium - William T. Vollmann This page contains links to sites on william T. Vollmann, and will one day contain a full Scriptorium page. http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/vollmann.html

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28. William T. Vollmann Is A Man Of Many Words, Most Of Them About His Favorite Subj william T. Vollmann is a man of many words, most of them about his favorite subjects prostitutes, drugs, violence. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/28/DDGNO3ALP51.DTL

29. William T. Vollmann On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online There are 35 conversations about william T. Vollmann s books. Users with books by william T. Vollmann. fairbrook (18), abductee (17), eisfordanger (16), http://www.librarything.com/author/vollmannwilliam

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: William T. Vollmann Also known as: William T.Vollmann Vollmann William Vollmann Willaim T. VOLLMAN ... VOLLMAN WILLIAM Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by William T. Vollmann combine/separate works Europe central 360 copies, 8 reviews 214 copies, 2 reviews The ice-shirt 149 copies, review The rainbow stories 129 copies, 1 review You bright and risen angels : a cartoon 125 copies, review The atlas 124 copies, 3 reviews The royal family 110 copies, 1 review 86 copies, review Poor people 85 copies, 2 reviews Second dream, fathers and crows 82 copies, review Butterfly stories : a novel 82 copies, 1 review 77 copies, review Thirteen stories and thirteen epitaphs 71 copies, review Argall : a book of North American landscapes 67 copies, review 49 copies, review see all 26 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars

30. San Francisco Bay Guardian | Arts And Entertainment Kate Braverman holds a genteel conclave with william T. Vollmann about guns, whores, whiskey, death, and other literary matters http://www.sfbg.com/40/21/lit_conversation.html

CONVERSATION The subversion dialogues Kate Braverman holds a genteel conclave with William T. Vollmann about guns, whores, whiskey, death, and other literary matters When I moved to the Bay Area a few years ago, I gravitated to the second-hand section of Berkeley's Black Oak Books. It's the cult library of books you meant to read but didn't quite get to. The first year, the novels that most astounded me were Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, Don DeLillo's Underworld, and the fictions of William T. Vollmann. In particular, Vollmann's The Royal Family is a savage, glittering novel of the San Francisco underbelly of prostitutes, pimps, private detectives, and drugs written with the audacity, skill, and authority of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian . But the social and psychological issues are more complex and ambiguous. Vollmann's uncompromising antiauthoritarianism, his daring deviation from conventional narrative into literary criticism asides and essays, the sheer epic scale of the ambition, unhinged me. I felt as if I was in the presence of punk high art, renegade genius, and a contagious subversion I wanted to join. Kate Braverman Black Oak has a wall of your books. I read your novels and short fiction and inquired about you to other writers. You have an enormous reputation as an outlaw, a recluse, and a profoundly important literary force.

31. The BEATRICE Interview: 2000 william T. Vollmann s writings have always displayed a fascination with traveling to the ends of the earthfor his novel The Rifles, he set out on a solo http://www.beatrice.com/interviews/vollmann/

William T. Vollmann "I'm not doing it for the money, and, therefore, I can't see any reason to compromise." interviewed by Ron Hogan Get Vertical! William T. Vollmann's writings have always displayed a fascination with traveling to the ends of the earthfor his novel The Rifles , he set out on a solo trek into the Arctic as part of his research. But over the years, he demonstrated how easy it is to find "the ends of the earth" in its most densely populated sectors. The Royal Family is a sprawling novel set primarily in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, the city's main center for prostitution. Most of the story is centered around the downward spiral of Henry Tyler, a private investigator mourning the dead sister-in-law with whom he was in love as he prowls streets, dive bars, and cheap hotels searching for the Queen of the Whores. Vollman is famous in literary circles for the pace at which he works. In addition to a massive project we discussed during our conversation, he recently completed the fourth book in his Seven Dreams cycle, a symbolic history of the encounters between Native Americans and European explorers and colonists, and is currently working on two projects, a book about the Imperial Valley in southeast California and a series of short stories about Europe during the Second World War which will focus especially on Slavs and Jews.

32. William T Vollmann - News, Biography, Links, Et Cetera This page is dedicated to the works of the young American author william T. Vollmann, widely regarded by his peers and readers as the one of the most http://www.williamtvollmann.com/

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33. William T. Vollmann | Reviews, Interviews, Articles Villiam T. Vollmann reviews, interviews, articles, more. http://www.quarterlyconversation.com/Vollmann-author.html

Home Previous Issues Book Reviews Archive Submission Guidelines ... The Conversational Reading Blog The Quarterly Conversation Author Page: William T. Vollmann Bio William T. Vollmann is the author of 16 works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as a number of small-run art books and curios. Well-known for his massive output (in the two decades since his first novel in 1987, Vollmann has published well over 10,000 pages and shows no sign of stopping), his work is characterized by historical fiction and fictionalized journalism. In most of his books, Vollmann grapples with one or more moral dilemmas, but as a novelist he rarely tries to solve these dilemmas, preferring to simply present them in as great of detail as possible to the reader. Born in 1959 in Los Angeles, Vollmann attended classes at Deep Springs College before transferring Cornell University where he earned a BA, summa cum laude , in comparative literature. His life up till them seems to have been despressed. There are numerous pictures of him as a grimacing teen, including one aptly titled "Portrait of the Artist with a Gun to His Head." Vollmann's sister drowned when he was very young, and in interviews and profiles he had repeatedly blamed himself for the drowning. The accident had a profound impact on Vollmann as he grew up, and the interests of his fictionespecially women and moral dilemmasindicate that he still writes from within the memory's shadow. After graduating from college, Vollmann traveled to Afghanistan in 1982 to fight with the mujahideen; these experiences would form the basis for his first nonfiction work

34. Finding Aid The William T. Vollmann Collection - Rare Books And Finding Aid The william T. Vollmann Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University Libraries. http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/finding/vollmann.php

The Ohio State University www.osu.edu Help Campus map ... Webmail Search Ohio State's website OSUL Home Find Find Books Find Articles ... Requests/Forms THE WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN COLLECTION: GUIDE AND INVENTORY SPEC.CMS.98 (Compiled by Sarah Hogue) INTRODUCTION William T. Vollmann, 1959-, Santa Monica, California. Educated at Deep Springs College, Cornell University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Vollmann is a complex and innovative novelist and journalist who has often mixed the two genres, and who often includes autobiographical elements in the mix. He is also an artist and photographer, and has included this kind of work in his books. In addition, he is a maker of artists’ book, and distributes them through his own press, Cotangent Press. Among his major works are You Bright and Risen Angels (Atheneum, 1987), The Rainbow Stories (Atheneum, 1989), Seven Dreams (ongoing; 3 vols. of 7 planned published by Viking, 1990-1994), An Afghanistan Picture Show (Farrar, Straus, 1992), Butterfly Stories (Grove/Atlantic, 1993), and The Atlas (Viking, 1996). His work is characterized by a fascination with history, society, politics, travel, wilderness, and what some might consider the seamier sides of life (such as prostitution). OSU’s collection includes notes, complete and partial drafts, Vollmann’s work, including

35. The National Book Foundation Europe Central by william T. Vollmann, published by Viking Press. william T. Vollmann at the 2005 National Book Awards Ceremony as he is announced the http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2005_f_vollmann.html

2005 National Book Award Winner Fiction William T. Vollmann Europe Central Viking Acceptance Speech ANDRE DUBUS III: Good evening. I will be very brief. It was a true joy and an honor to read through this mountain of books these last four months. I thank the National Book Foundation and Harold Augenbraum for allowing me to do this. I want to publicly thank my hardworking judges, Rikki Ducornet, Cristina Garcia, Thomas LeClair and Anna Quindlen. They worked hard. [Applause] William T. Vollmann and Andre Dubus III Photo credit: Robin Platzer/Twin Images The March by E.L. Doctorow, published by Random House;

36. Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview With William T Vollmann An Interview with william T Vollmann. By Larry McCaffery. Larry McCaffery In one of your biographical statements, you emphasize your absorption as a kid in http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/interview_vollmann.html

An Interview with William T Vollmann By Larry McCaffery Larry McCaffery: In one of your biographical statements, you emphasize your absorption as a kid in booksthis sense of riding on the magic carpet with the caliph, and so on. Did inhabiting these exotic places so long and so deeply in your imagination have anything to do with wanting to actually visit them now that you're grown up? William Vollman: My primary world is just this one basic "dream world" that I've been in from the time I was a kid. All these worlds that I see and write about are equally real and can coexist, so it's not like I have to leave my own world in order to inhabit them. That's my ability, I guess. But this also means that these different worlds are also equally unreal , so I can't take anything too seriously. None of them take precedence over any others. The truth is, I get kind of bored with a lot of ordinary people. It's not that I think that I'm better than they are (if anything, I think they're probably better than I am, because it's easier for them to be happy and just live their lives, whereas for some reason I don't seem to be happy just living my life; it always feels like I'm looking for something new, not ordinary). Given that predisposition, I try to find people who don't seem familiar. This oftentimes puts me into something like that dreamworld I experienced as a kid, because the more extreme and exotic the experience and the more difficult the people, the more I learn, and the less remains that's not ordinary. Then even the process of searching for the exotic becomes a habit. Like a dream.

37. The New York Times Books Sunday Book Review Rising Up And william T. Vollmann, the author of Rising Up and Rising Down. n 1987, william T. Vollmann published his first novel, You Bright and Risen Angels, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/07/books/review/07MCLEMET.html?ex=1393995600&en=5

38. Vollmann, William T. (American Author) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Although another decidedly experimental work, Europe Central by william T. Vollmann, an 811page novel about the rise of Nazism and the Russian front, http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-1116623/Vollmann-William-T

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40. William T. Vollmann Criticism william T. Vollmann Criticism and Essays. william T. Vollmann 1959–. American novelist, short story writer, and memoirist. http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/vollmann-william-t

utmSetVar('lit_all'); William T. Vollmann Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page William T. Vollmann 1959– American novelist, short story writer, and memoirist. The following entry provides an overview of Vollmann's career through 1994. INTRODUCTION Vollmann is widely recognized as an important novelist and one of the most innovative writers of his generation. His approach to writing combines investigative journalism, intensive historical research, and a metafictional technique that has garnered laudatory comparisons to such writers as Tom Wolfe and Thomas Pynchon. Critics praise Vollmann for his distinctive, often beautiful prose and commend his work for its insights into neglected areas of modern life, noting his fascination with, for example, the Mujahedeen rebels in Afghanistan, neo-Nazi "skinheads," prostitutes, and other characters on the margins of contemporary society. Some critics, however, note that Vollmann is prone to writing dense, sprawling works that seem to lack structure, and argue that his fondness for prostitutes is either a perverse fetish or a clich©d attempt to shock bourgeois sensibilities. Biographical Information Born in Santa Monica, California, to educated, middle-class parents, Vollmann attended Deep Springs College, Cornell University, and the University of California-Berkeley. His dedication to first-hand experience for literary inspiration has led him into frequently dangerous encounters with the people upon whom his work focuses. For example, in order to gain the trust of prostitutes in San Francisco's "Tenderloin" district, he has shared their drugs and has reportedly smoked "crack" cocaine over one hundred times; and, in the early 1980s, his political idealism led him to assist—ineffectually and foolishly, as he reports in

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