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Talking bugs, electricity, the founding of empires, hobos, Nazis, whores, violence, drugs, murder, secret cabals, Heaven, Hell--William T. Vollmann is a writer of enormous novels that are stuffed with entire worlds of creation and destruction. This first ever book-length critical study traces his career to date with chapters devoted to each of his novels, as well as his short stories and major nonfiction. Vollmann is a writer of obsessions, and this study concentrates on three of them--freedom, redemption, and prostitution--while arguing that the author that dwells on them is worthy of being called one of our greatest living American writers. Also included are seven interviews spanning the years 1991-2007 that reinforce the persistence of Vollmann's attraction to these themes.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: Freedom, Redemption, and Prostitution
Introduction
1. You Bright and Risen Angels (1987)
2. The Rainbow Stories (1989); Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epithets (1991); Europe Central (2005)
3. Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes (1990-2001)
4. Whores for Gloria (1991); Butterfly Stories (1993); The Royal Family (2001)
5. Rising Up and Rising Down (2003)
6. An Afghanistan Picture Show (1993); The Atlas (1996)
7. Poor People (2007); Riding Toward Everywhere (2008); Imperial (2009)
Part II: Seven Conversations
Moth to the Flame (1991) by Larry McCaffery
The Write Stuff 7ALT-X Interview (1994) by AL
Vollmann Shares Vision (2000) by Michelle Goldberg
Pattern Recognitions (2001) by Larry McCaffery
Drinks with Tony (2005) by Tony Dushane
The Subversive Dialogues (2006) by Kate Braverman
A Day at Vollmann's Studio (2007) by Terri Saul
Appendix: CoTangent Press Book Arts
Notes
Bibliography
Index
