Research Catalog

Title

Conversations with William T. Vollmann / edited by Daniel Lukes.

Author

Vollmann, William T.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Lukes, Daniel

Description

xx, 229 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Across fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history, William T. Vollmann's oeuvre-which includes a "prostitution trilogy," a septology (Seven Dreams) about encounters between first North Americans and European colonists, and a more than three-thousand-page philosophical treatise on violence-is ambitious as it is dazzling. Conversations with William T. Vollmann collects twenty-nine interviews, from early press coverage in Britain where his career first took flight, to in-depth visits to his writing and art studio in Sacramento, California. Throughout these conversations, Vollmann (b. 1959) speaks with candor and wit on such subjects as grief and guilt in his work, his love of guns and his experience of war, the responsibilities of the artist as witness, the benefits of looking out into the world beyond the confines of one's horizon, the limitations of what literature can achieve, and how we can speak to the future. Bringing to the fore several expanded, unpublished, and hard-to-find interviews, this volume offers a valuable set of perspectives on a uniquely rewarding and sometimes overwhelming writer. On the road promoting his books or in a domestic setting, Vollmann comes across as reflective and humane, humble in his craft despite deep dedication to his uncompromising vision, and ever armed with a spirit of mischief and capacity to shock and unsettle the reader"--
• "Collected interviews with the writer of fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history whose book, Europe Central, won the National Book Award for Fiction"--

Series Statement

Literary conversations series

Uniform Title

Literary conversations series.

Subjects

• Authors, American
• Authors, American > Interviews
• Interviews
• Vollmann, William T > Interviews
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Introduction -- Chronology -- Under the rainbow / Jonathan Coe -- Parallel lives / Paul Oldfield -- Night writer: leading readers to the darkness at the edge of town / Cary Tennis -- William T. Vollmann: the prolific young author takes a walk on the wild side--of life and history / Michael Coffey -- In Parkman's footsteps / D. T. Max -- An American aboriginal / David Streitfeld -- Pimps, alcoholics, crackheads, pushers, runaways, all the forsaken... / Timothy O'Grady -- Young novelist undertakes bizarre magazine assignment / Elisabeth Sherwin -- Vollmann's vision / Tom McIntyre -- Conversation with William Vollmann / R. V. Branham -- Lovesick / Liz Fried -- A nerd in action / Andy Beckett -- Vollmann ventures beyond the edge / Sam Whiting -- An interview with William T. Vollmann / Alexander Laurence -- William T. Vollmann / M. T. Kinney and Chan Marshall -- Interview: William T. Vollmann / Dennis Cooper -- Creating "Many, Many Osamas" / Steve Kettmann -- William T. Vollmann / Paul Hunter -- If you really want radical / Michael Hemmingson -- L'Américain tranquille (the quiet American) / David Boratav -- Long-term visitor : an interview with William T. Vollmann / Daniel Lukes -- Art and freedom in time of war : a conversation with William T. Vollmann / Andrew Ervin -- Interview with William T. Vollmann / Ben Bush -- Boxcars, Shostakovich, and the poor : William T. Vollmann talks with Bookforum / Donna Seaman -- William T. Vollmann : the Powells.com interview / Jimmy Cline -- She who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk / Carson Chan and Matthew Evans -- William T. Vollmann : the self images of a cross-dresser / Stephen Heyman -- Standing up in our own small way : an interview with William T. Vollmann -- Could you do any better than we did? / Ted Hamilton -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 20-4302

ISBN

• 9781496826695
• 1496826698
• 9781496826701
• 1496826701
• 9781496826718 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781496826725 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781496826732 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781496826749 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019052095

OCLC

1099276410

Author

Vollmann, William T., interviewee.

Title

Conversations with William T. Vollmann / edited by Daniel Lukes.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literary conversations series

Literary conversations series.

Added Author

Lukes, Daniel, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Vollmann, William T., Conversations with William T. Vollmann Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020. 9781496826718 (DLC) 2019052096

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4302