41. William T. Vollmann On Using Travel To Better Understand The World - Vagabloggin william T. Vollmann, from Some Thoughts on the Value of Writing During Wartime, a lecture given in November 2002. Posted by Rolf Potts Permalink http://www.vagablogging.net/06-01/william-t-vollmann-on-using-travel-to-better-u

Search this blog: Main Bio Stories Interviews ... Contact Rolf's new book! Home January 11, 2006 William T. Vollmann on using travel to better understand the world "In these times, any one of you who feels inclined to risk a little and learn a lot should travel to an Islamic country to make friends and to learn, not to teach. . . . You should get to know them well enough to understand why what they believe is plausible to them, and you should explain their views to other Americans as sympathetically and as accurately as you can." William T. Vollmann, from "Some Thoughts on the Value of Writing During Wartime," a lecture given in November 2002 Posted by Rolf Potts Permalink Related: Travel Quote of the Day Comments (2) Joshua Berman I always liked this Vollman quote from The Atlas: "Which is worse, to be too often protected, and thereby forget the suffering of others, or to suffer them oneself? There is, perhaps, a middle course: to be out in the world enough to be toughened, but to have a shelter sufficient to stave off callousness and wretchedness." Posted by Joshua Berman January 11, 2006 7:31 PM

42. Poets&Writers, Inc. william T. Vollmann Yeah, The Atlas is categorized as fiction legitimately Expelled from Eden A william T. Vollmann Reader (Thunder Mouth Press, 2004) http://www.pw.org/mag/dq_vollmann.htm

From Inspiration to Publication Search site Search archive Magazine Home About the Magazine Archive ... Contact Us in this issue Table of Contents News and Trends Features The Literary Life ... Submission Guidelines online only Teachers Guide Industry Shorts Direct Quotes Postcards ... Podcasts online only DIRECT QUOTE WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN ON WRITING WITH INTEGRITY BENDING GENRES, AND HUMANIZING THE VILLAINS Spin magazine. In 1982, after graduating summa cum laude in comparative literature from Cornell University, Vollmann traveled to Afghanistan to fight alongside the then U.S.-backed Mujahdeen in their efforts to expel the invading Soviet forces. In his 3,500-plus-page epic Rising Up and Rising Down Europe Central (Viking), a collection of stories that examines the German-Soviet conflict of World War II, centering on a series of pieces about formalist composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose reputation amongst the Stalinist authorities vacillated between high honors and threats of Gulag incarceration. In Europe Central the agents of internal espionage become cultural critics as they spend their lives shadowing dissident artists, writers, and musicians.

43. Salon.com Books | Red-light Fever In william T. Vollmann s latest novel, The Royal Family, the main character describes his fascination with San Francisco s Tenderloin. http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/08/28/vollmann/index.html

Search About Salon Table Talk Newsletters ... Search All of Salon.com Only Books The Web with Directory Hot Topics Book Reviews Garrison Keillor J.R.R. Tolkien Harry Potter ... Dave Eggers Articles by date All of Salon.com The Movie Page Books Business ... Table Talk [Freewheeling Salon forums] What is your kid reading? Had an adventure in mangled language lately? Posts of the week The Well [Pioneering members-only discussions] Let's get catty! Sound Off E-mail Salon Send us a Letter to the Editor Today's letters Downloads Get Salon.com on your PDA Salon.com headlines from More ways to get Salon Red-light fever I, too, love a district where anything goes, but William Vollmann's novel of San Francisco's Tenderloin goes too far. By Cary Tennis I understand the impulse to run away from the suburbs to a place that looks as if people actually live there, to go into a bar where there are no balloons, to walk down a street where nothing bespeaks a shallow niceness but everything is burnished with human use, and the bloodstains on the sidewalks remind us that people bleed and an occasional broken tree reminds us that people sometimes drive too fast and can't stop. I understand the allure of a neighborhood of apartments where old men sit on stoops talking of their days in submarines and street-corner hookers of indeterminate gender construct a novel sexuality out of pure will. If you had to choose between such a neighborhood and a sterile suburb where Christianity has been edited to fit your screen and bloody history has been preempted by Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," where sleepwalkers mow their lawns and hang their clothes in a breeze redolent of Tide, where lives are lived outside of history in a glass jar filled with Glade, where the highest good seems to be a kind of banal tranquility my God, who would not flee that death-in-life that America seems to offer up at every turn? And go where? Anywhere. To a place by a river. To a loft in an industrial area. To a downtrodden section of a great city to live a secret life of painted glamour in bars where longshoremen used to fight with knives.

44. 'Riding Toward Everywhere' By William T. Vollmann - Los Angeles Times As one of our more intrepid cultural interpreters, william T. Vollmann has traveled with the mujahedin in Afghanistan, smoked crack with hookers and camped http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-weingarten20jan20,0,7765694.story?co

45. Books: Vollmann Interviews 'Poor People' - Washingtonpost.com Author william T. Vollmann discusses his book Poor People officially released today in which he travels the world asking the destitute why are you http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/26/DI20070226011

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46. CRITICAL MASS Critical Outtakes William T. Vollmann Critical Outtakes william T. Vollmann. From an interview conducted in Sacramento in the summer of 2000, prior to the publication of The Royal Family. http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2006/09/critical-outtakes-william-t-vollma

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48. William T. Vollmann - Royal Family It s gives me something to do in my free time. . Check out the william T. Vollmann website http//home1.gte.net/csweet/vollmann.htm http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/may_2001/vollmann.html

The Royal Family (Published by Viking, August 2000) I met Bill Vollmann in 1990. I had read Rainbow Stories and read a few stories of his in Conjunctions . I lived in San Francisco at the time, and except for a few people and friends, nobody knew who he was. Vollmann had lived in San Francisco off and on since 1981, but I had no idea how to contact him. I found out later that he was living in New York City at this time and was writing Fathers and Crows. I asked a few papers in the Bay Area about doing an article on Vollmann. They weren't interested, because he wasn't part of the PC fads. In 1993 and 1994, I finally got to do some interviews with Vollmann and I saw him a lot during these years. Many of these magazines were apprehensive about doing anything about him, but I soon made them believers. I remember one time when I met Bill in Noe Valley. We walked down to Mission Street and all the way to the 16th Street Bart Station, talking about the hotels and the people who would later show up in The Royal Family . Today you see articles in the Bay Area newspapers and magazines much as you see articles about lesser writers such as Amy Tan and Anne Lamont, who have been over-praised and had too much attention given. I mean if some lesbian built a table, as long as it worked, as was a nice looking table, I wouldn't care who built it. The Royal Family is a novel about two brothers. Henry a detective who is looking for the Queen of the Whores. John a lawyer who is thinking about the loss of his Wife, Irene.

49. William T Vollmann Biography william T. Vollmann is the prodigiously prolific author of several novels, collections of short stories, and numerous nonfiction articles for The New Yorker http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4806/Vollmann-William-T.html

Other Free Encyclopedias Brief Biographies Contemporary Novelists Vol 17 William T Vollmann Biography Find all books written by William T Vollmann on Amazon.com Nationality: American. Born: Santa Monica, California, 1959. Education: Attended Deep Springs College, 1977-79; Cornell University, B.A. 1981; graduate study at University of California, Berkeley, 1982-83. Career: Founder, CoTangent Press; writer. Awards: Agent: c/o Viking-Penguin, 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. P UBLICATIONS Novels You Bright and Risen Angels: A Cartoon. New York, Atheneum, 1987. Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes , Volume 1, The Ice-Shirt , New York, Viking, 1990; Volume 2, Fathers and Crows , New York, Viking, 1992; Volume 6, The Rifles , New York, Viking, 1993. Whores for Gloria; or, Everything Was Beautiful until the Girls Got Anxious (documentary novel). London, Pan-Picador, 1991; New York, Pantheon, 1992. Butterfly Stories: A Novel. New York, Grove/Atlantic, 1993. The Royal Family. New York, Viking, 2000. Short Stories The Rainbow Stories.

50. Powell's Books - Riding Toward Everywhere By William T. Vollmann Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?show=Hardcover:New:9780061256752:26.95

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52. Parables Of A Violent World - The New York Review Of Books Expelled from Eden A william T. Vollmann Reader A piecemeal atlas of the world I think in was william T. Vollmann s phrase for a book he wrote almost http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18560

Home Your account Current issue Archives ... December 15, 2005 Parables of a Violent World By Michael Wood Europe Central by William T. Vollmann Viking, 811 pp., $39.95 Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader edited by Larry McCaffery and Michael Hemmingson Thunder's Mouth, 479 pp., $17.95 (paper) 'A piecemeal atlas of the world I think in' was William T. Vollmann's phrase for a book he wrote almost ten years ago. That world is certainly worth mapping. It is full of contemporary history, politics, guns, prostitution, drugs, crowds, and violence. But it is also the shifting residence of a lonely, obsessive reader and writer determined to make sense of things. The work in question is in fact called The Atlas (1996), and contains fifty-five items of varying length, written alternatively in the first and third person, from the point of view of a male traveler, set in an impressive list of locations around the globe, from Afghanistan to Zagreb, and from Grand Central Station to the Yukon. aj_server = 'http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/'; aj_tagver = '1.0'; aj_zone = 'nyrb'; aj_adspot = '292481'; aj_page = '0'; aj_dim ='147520'; aj_ch = ''; aj_ct = ''; aj_kw = ''; aj_pv = true; aj_click = ''; Review, 4523 words

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OUT OF STOCK Product Code: WV01 Rising Up and Rising Down William T. Vollmann Rising Up and Rising Down Rising Up and Rising Down includes a series of interviews, photographs, United Nations "situation maps," illustrations, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings. The book, 3,298 pages long, is published as seven hardcover volumes released simultaneously in a burgundy, cloth-covered box with gold-foil detail. Related Sites. THE BELIEVER BELIEVER BOOKS 826 VALENCIA 826 SEATTLE ... STORE HOME

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56. Eyeshot Provokes William T. Vollmann: A Report On His Reading From "The Royal Fa Eyeshot Provokes william T. Vollmann. On October 2, 2000, Eyeshot International deployed three Agents (not to mention the Eyeshot Editor/author of this http://www.eyeshot.net/wtv1.htm

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58. Book Review: Europe Central By William T. Vollmann The rainbow connection in Europe Central,the epic, feverdream fusion of fiction and fact by the prolific and Pynchon-esque william T. Vollmann, http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/11/18/141101.php

BC Home Features Fresh Comments RSS ... Become a BC Writer Blogcritics is an online magazine, a community of writers and readers from around the globe. Publisher: Eric Olsen REVIEW Book Review: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann Written by Gordon Hauptfleisch Published November 18, 2005 See also: GreenLit: An American Haunting - The Bell Witch by Brent Monahan Book Review: ... by Sam Seder and Stephen Sherrill When "A screaming comes across the sky" on the first page of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow , the V-2 rocket bombing of World War II London sets forth as much novelistic intrigue and ambiguity as it does interwoven, encyclopedic narratives and a heady mix of all things apocalyptic, paranoiac and pop-cultural. Will the deadly barrage "come in darkness, or will it bring its own light?" The open-ended and enigmatic conclusion of the novel hints that the "angel of death" and utter annihilation may actually signal some kind of divine salvation, bearing out motifs of regeneration, cyclical time and metamorphic accord with a "Soul in ev'ry stone." Indeed, noted in the epigraph to part one of the novel is Werner Von Braun's belief in the continuity of spiritual existence after death: "Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation." The rainbow connection in Europe Central There's no transformative pot of gold at the end of this ear-piercing, vapor-trail rainbow, though, and no souls in any stone as two lovers amid the Armageddon (in a dream about a film that seems to parallel

59. January Book-Poor People By William T. Vollmann - The Cary Book Club Meetup Grou These are just some of the answers to the simple yet groundbreaking question william T. Vollmann asks in cities and villages around the globe Why are you http://bookclub.meetup.com/471/calendar/6954288/

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60. Poor People By William T. Vollmann Poor People , by william T. Vollmann, a Hardcover from Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060878825/Poor_People/index.aspx

Member Sign In Register Books Authors Readers Members Search: Popular Searches submissions submission contests submission guidelines erin hunter mary-kate ashley olsen warriors access press ecco johanna lindsey Browse Bestsellers New Releases Upcoming Books ... Award Winners initNav(0); Categories Audio Avon Romance Business Children's Books Cooking E-books Fiction Health and Fitness History Lifestyles Mystery Parenting Poetry SF and F/Eos Self Improvement Spirituality Teen Readers Book Description E-mail this page Print this page Poor People By William T. Vollmann Price: On Sale: Formats: Hardcover Trade PB because i was bad in my last life. because allah has willed it. because the rich do nothing for the poor. because the poor do nothing for themselves. because it is my destiny. These are just some of the answers to the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asks in cities and villages around the globe: "Why are you poor?" In the tradition of James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , Vollmann's Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and its quiet resignation.

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