r/vollmann • u/Agreeable_Bullfrog77 • 6d ago

new article

https://spectator.com/article/inside-william-t-vollmann-table-fortune-magnum-opus/?edition=us

behind a paywall unfortunately

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u/nzcampbell 6d ago

https://archive.ph/ZYiHI

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u/Gnomonism 4d ago

there’s a special place in heaven for men like you. thanks amigo

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u/biltocen 6d ago

At the end of his letter, Vollmann told me the working titles of some upcoming projects. “Next books (if I live long enough): THREE DARK STORIES + HOME + LISA, A LOVE STORY. In haste, Bill.”

always something to be hopeful for! thanks for sharing

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u/TheEmoEmu23 4d ago

Do we know anything about this books at all? LISA, A LOVE STORY will be devastating.

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u/bobbyhead 6d ago

Thank you for the archive link

A Lisa book would be amazing & devastating. When he wrote the four men piece & briefly mentioned her passing & home free situation in such brevity it was like he could not stop himself from spouting that info. But it reframed the whole piece. This was grief in cosplay or drag of journalism. 

For someone who has major output three or four sentences on his daughter is glaringly brief 

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u/WIGSHOPjeff 5d ago

I might be misremembering but doesn’t Carbon Ideologies mention his daughter a lot? More a stand-in for our “responsibilities to do right for the next generation” and less about her story — but I think she’s in there a bunch.

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u/bobbyhead 5d ago

okay that is good to know. have not read that one yet but it is on my shelf

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u/TheEmoEmu23 4d ago

That was written before she died though.