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	LitKicks: Overrated Writers, Part Three: William Vollmann
		William Vollmann is, in my opinion, the David Blaine of literature.
		Vollmann's books tower over the work of his contemporaries by virtue of their enormous range, stylistic daring, wide learning, audacious innovation and sardonic wit...
		In fact, I think it's presumptious of William Vollmann to assume that I -- a father of three kids with a demanding day job and a litblog to tend -- have the time to read all of this unpruned verbiage, even if I want to.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=OverratedVollmann (1098 words)

	BOOKFORUM \| Summer 2005
		Whatever the personal cost, Vollmann's graphomania foregrounds what it means to be prolific in an age when most people will devote only so much of their leisure time to reading.
		By now Vollmann is no longer the youthful prodigy he once was, and as his books have issued steadily forth they've been duly noted, sometimes applauded, sometimes disparaged as bloated, muddled, or as examples of "postmodern" excess—a lazy shibboleth of the smug reviewer.
		Vollmann tells us that "the goal here was to write a series of parables about famous, infamous, and anonymous European moral actors at moments of decision." In many cases these "moments of decision" lead only to further quandaries.
	www.bookforum.com /archive/sum_05/gibbons.html (3527 words)

	R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Spring 2005 - Two by William Vollmann
		One Vollmann title I've steered away from is the third installment in his Seven Dreams series, Argall, which explores the story of a pirate captain, the romance of John Smith and Pocahontas, and the further “settling” of the American continent—and all composed in Elizabethan English.
		Vollmann is not the kind of writer who attempts to mask his influences or interests; the blessed majority of his books have appendices rife with citations, source notes, even suggestions for further reading.
		Vollmann knows exactly what he is. His struggles derive not from trying to achieve genius, but from trying to get it all out, to keep it intact, and to do something good with it.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2005spring/vollmann.shtml (1808 words)

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		William Vollmann has been to a lot of scary places.
		Asking himself, "when is violence justified?," Vollmann has created something of a moral calculus, a structured decision-making system designed to help each reader decide when violence is justifiable and when it is not.
		Coming from William Vollmann, this is likely to be provoking stuff, on any number of levels.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5618544&postID=110114628662278835 (212 words)

	Amazon.de: The Atlas: English Books: William T. Vollmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Vollmann has gained cult status in the writing world, which, by definition, means his work is not for tradition-bound, and certainly not timid, readers.
		His novels and stories--and differentiating between a Vollmann novel and a collection of his stories is often difficult, because, in his hands, the two forms share a similar structure--are surrealistic, sordid, sensational, and terrific.
		William Vollmann is not only a living master of the English language canon, he is one of my very favourite authors, personally.
	www.amazon.de /Atlas-William-T-Vollmann/dp/0670865788 (1164 words)

	Amazon.ca: Rifles: Books: William Vollmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Rifles is the "sixth dream" in Vollmann's staggeringly ambitious Seven Dreams sequence, which promised to be an imaginative charting of the European conquest and settling of North America.
		And it is the third dream to be published (Vollmann is breaking chronological order), following The Ice-Shirt and Fathers and Crows, which detailed the Viking arrival in Newfoundland at the end of the first millenium and the French foray into the St. Lawrence River region in the middle of the second, respectively.
		Vollmann is working in this novel to trace the impact of technology on Inuit culture.
	www.amazon.ca /Rifles-William-T-Vollmann/dp/0670848565 (1401 words)

	The Vollmann Club -- William T. Vollmann
		Vollmann at book signings, got a bit excited, and realized that they needed to read more of his work.
		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.
		William T. Vollmann is one of the most fearless authors of our time, often considered to be the dark horse of contemporary novelists.
	www.edrants.com /wtv (697 words)

	Daredevil thinker: William Vollmann takes humanity one thought at a time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Vollmann paints a human picture of the characters that history tends to present to us two-dimensionally, people who were involved in some of the most critical events of the 20th century.
		Vollmann's international brothers-in-arms philosophy is also the link between his latest book and his notoriously detailed previous works dating back two decades, including 2003's Rising Up and Rising Down, an encyclopedic seven-volume study of the history of violence that won critical acclaim but was daunting in its length and complexity.
		Vollmann's thick glasses, cropped brown hair and nondescript clothes reinforce his bookish image, and he seems somewhat uncomfortable in his tall frame.
	www.canada.com /ottawacitizen/story.html?id=61d5c8d1-7301-4528-a89c-2a71fc82c16f (446 words)

	The Black Flag Cafe :: View topic - What do you know about William Vollmann ?
		Vollmann, who was in the back seat, emerged unscathed), and on another occasion nearly freezing to death in the Arctic while researching his "Seven Dreams" series, a fictionalized chronicle of encounters between Native Americans and Europeans.
		Vollmann refuses to allow his analysis to drift into either monochromatic agitprop or bitter lament over mankind’s bloody track-record.
		Vollmann does away with narrative, fancy prose and all the window-dressing of literature.
	www.comebackalive.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6819 (1328 words)

	Approaching History in the Works of William Vollman
		Vollmann contradicts this by showing the past to be a force, one that places a certain amount of inertia on the present.
		To her, Vollmann dedicates the final section of the story, "The Angel of Happiness." He relishes his memory of her because he believes he has impregnated her.
		William the Blind lives and breathes within such a "transtemporal community." Everyone who has participated in the history of Canada, in whatever role, is present as he walks through Quebec.
	www.d.umn.edu /cla/faculty/tbacig/urop/vollmann.html (3529 words)

	Argall by William T. Vollman - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Vollmann's balancing act is impressive and works best when he presents lesser-known historical occurrences or invents possible ones wholesale.
		Vollmann's usage of spelling variations may appear to be just another case of postmodern wordplay, but a note reveals that every proper name form is taken from an actual historical source.
		William the Blind's compelling recreation of John Smith and Pocahontas is the best known subject matter of any book in the series and is thus the volume most likely to upset a reader's stereotypes concerning the oft-romanticized European settlement of North America.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2001winter/vollmann.shtml (1519 words)

	Marxism message, William Vollmann
		Vollmann's view, an opportunity to legally discharge a firearm is not something to pass up.
		Vollmann spent two weeks alone at an abandoned Canadian weather station at the magnetic North Pole, suffering from hypothermia, frostbite and hallucinations from the lack of sleep.
		Vollmann argues, was also a murderer, who had his men drag five unarmed, pro-slavery men from their homes near Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas and kill them.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/marxism/2003w39/msg00172.htm (821 words)

	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.
		Vollmann's new work, which has been 23 years in the making, aims to be nothing short of a 'critique of terrorist, defensive, military and police activity' around the world, focusing on political violence and asking the question, 'When is violence justified?'"
		William Vollmann's growing sense of mystical Christianity is bringing him closer to Dostoevsky.
	www.mcsweeneys.net /authorpages/vollmann/vollmann.html (5094 words)

	Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » Vollmann’s Aesthetic Realism
		Vollmann is not, as some have suggested, a mere information-obsessed postmodernist or a data packrat working in the territory of Gaddis, Coover or Pynchon, but rather an author who is carrying on the abandoned literary tradition of inhabiting aesthetic misery to unearth the worldâs larger and more neglected truths.
		Given Vollmannâs clear evocation of Poe in his preface, itâs worth noting that there are considerable similarities between Vollmannâs drunk and the drunk unearthed in Poeâs comic tale âThe Man of the Crowd.â Both stories deal with a first-person protagonist observing the world and reporting back the shady perspective in infinite detail to the reader.
		It is never enough for Vollmann to sort out and meditate on history in the place it happened: rather, he is driven to repossess the crisis itself and to produce in his own person the look and feel of that conquest, that defeat.
	www.edrants.com /?p=3582 (3200 words)

	Powell's Books - Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
		Perhaps Vollmann's signature accomplishment in Europe Central is a series of stories that examine the complex and elusive Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the constant Stalinist assaults upon his work and life.
		Here also Vollmann explores an imaginary love triangle between Shostakovich, the documentary filmmaker Roman Karmen, and Elena Konstantinovskaya, a translator who was intimate with Shostakovich for a year in the mid-1930s and thereafter married to Karmen for a brief time.
		William T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-0670033928-0 (1146 words)

	WBUR’s News and Arts Blog » Blog Archive » Reasons to Go Hear Vollmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Yet when Vollmann finds a handhold, gripping a tuft of time-and-place and staring at it as his other arm begins its outward search, he laughs, cries, skewers, and lovingly recreates—in short, empathizes, deeply and constantly.
		I doubt anyone could accuse Vollmann of playing toward trends, but it may be that, post-9/11, he is the one who captures the deeper zeitgeist.
		And i wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of Vollmann’s Nobel worthiness.
	blogs.wbur.org /arts/index.php/2006/03/reasons-to-go-hear-vollmann (1575 words)

	William Vollmann : Entropic Books - Rare, Used and Out-of-Print Books
		William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist.
		Vollmann was a student at Deep Springs College and Cornell University.
		Vollmann's other works often deal with the settlement of North America (as in Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, a cycle of novels), or stories of people (often prostitutes) on the margins of war, poverty and hope.
	www.entropicbooks.com /index.php?main_page=index&cPath=18&sort=3d&page=1 (463 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - William Vollmann Times Union Article
		Vollmann has spent almost 10 years in the region researching his next book, a nonfiction look at life on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
		Vollmann had turned in his old passport "after it started getting a little bit too checkered with visas to rogue nations.
		Vollmann, who is married and has a 6-year-old daughter, worries that we're living in an era that's all too analogous to Europe a century ago.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/tu_vollmann_william.html (1223 words)

	William Vollmann - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		William T. Vollmann was born in Los Angeles in 1959.
		Vollmann was the recipient of a 1988 Whiting Award, and in June of 1999 the New Yorker named him as one of the twenty best American writers under forty.
		Vollmann has also established the Co-Tangent Press for the publication of his own limited-edition art books.
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000017112,00.html (146 words)

	Amazon.com: The Atlas: Books: William Vollmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Last year could be remembered as a year in which the prolific young Vollmann did not publish a book; early 1996, however, shows that he wasn't sitting on his hands.
		Vollmann has gained cult status in the writing world, which, by definition, means his work is not for tradition-bound, and certainly not timid, readers.
		His novels and stories--and differentiating between a Vollmann novel and a collection of his stories is often difficult, because, in his hands, the two forms share a similar structure--are surrealistic, sordid, sensational, and terrific.
	www.amazon.com /Atlas-William-Vollmann/dp/0140254498 (559 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams) - William Vollmann - Product Details :: ttgapers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At first, because Vollmann came very highly recommended to me about a decade ago, I felt I had to force myself through the first 70 pages or so, namely because I've never read anyone quite like this before and his post-modernist style can take a little getting used to depending on one's reading experience.
		While Vollmann does have a wildly crazy bio, and some fascinating news and magazine articles, not to mention a massive research project on Violence called "Rising Up, Rising Down" as well as another lengthy foray into SF street life titled "The Royal Family" which I understand is the third in a so-called "Prostitution Trilogy".
		Vollmann can be difficult to read, but this book is worth a little effort.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0140131965-locale-us.html (1573 words)

	William Vollmann - Birthday, occupation and personality
		William Vollmann (born July 28, 1959 in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist.
		A single-volume condensed version was published at the end of the year by Ecco Press, an abridgement he justified by saying "I did it for the money." It represents over 20 years of work and attempts to establish a moral calculus to consider the causes, effects, and ethics of violence.
		Vollmann's papers were acquired by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of Ohio State University.
	www.mysticgames.com /EditCelebs.cfm?ID=61999 (452 words)

	Les Fusils - William Vollmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Vollmann est le meilleur écrivain américain classique parce qu’il fusionne dans la même langue les récits d’aventures de [people=Jack London]London[/people], le gonzo de [people=hunter s thompson]Thompson[/people], l’analyse politique de [people=norman mailer]Mailer[/people],le sens de l’espace de [people]Jim Harrison[/people], l’imagination de [people=william burroughs]Burroughs[/people], le punch engagé d’[people=ernest hemingway]Hemingway[/people] et la poésie de Whitman.
		Il n’est QUE le meilleur romancier américain classique car Vollmann n’a pas intégré à son univers le glamour insufflé par Fitzgerald et ses descendants (Ellis notamment), mais on peut s’en passer ici, puisque ce n’est pas la veine qui sert aux grandes épopées.
		Vollmann propose des descriptions fabuleuses du Grand Nord, avant de nous propulser, trois lignes plus loin, dans une baraque HLM bâtie par le gouvernement canadien où les ancêtres des Inuks se transforment en épaves.
	www.fluctuat.net /imprimer.php3?id_article=3504 (689 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - William Vollmann
		One of the boldest and most original writers of his generation, William Vollmann is renowned for both fiction and nonfiction about the victims and perpetrators of global violence, as well as prostitutes, addicts, and street people.
		Vollmann's newest collection of short stories, "Europe Central" (2005), presents three dozen paired stories that contrast the lives and moral decisions of numerous individuals living in Germany and the USSR during various periods of the twentieth century.
		The work also features a "Moral Calculus" of Vollmann's own devising: a decision-making system designed to help the reader decide when violence is justifiable and when it is not.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/vollmann_william.html (416 words)

	Supervert Picks - Quills
		The avowed intention of Vollmann's ambitious work is to create — moving empirically from practice to theory — a "moral calculus," a grid against which the morality of any act of violence can be measured.
		Vollmann's moral calculus does not fix the ambiguities in any such act of violence since, as he admits, all violence contains potentially conflicting perspectives.
		Vollmann's prose — it's tempting to say his logorrhea, a word often associated with the writer — undermines his intellectual achievement.
	supervert.com /picks/rising_up_and_rising_down (1160 words)

	William T. Vollmann — KCRW \| 89.9FM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the past, we've discussed William Vollmann's novels, but this time our subject is his mammoth inquiry, a study of the history of violence, which fills seven large volumes.
		Vollmann explains his "moral calculus"--a process for determining when, and if, violence is justified.
		Bookworm Michael Silverblatt is the guy authors go to when they want a serious literary conversation about their writing, because Michael reads everything theyâve ever written, often surprising the authors with insights about their work that they themselves hadnât realized.
	www.kcrw.com /etc/programs/bw/bw041104william_t_vollmann (134 words)

	village voice > books > William T. Vollmann's Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent ...
		William T. Vollmann thinks the first Gulf War was OK, but the sanctions were too harsh.
		Vollmann's insistence on the vitality of ethics draws his topics together with a certain lovely urgency.
		Vollmann's always been a better journalist than fictionalist, and a better ethicist than both.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0350/clover.php (900 words)

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