In Part I of this special episode, we’re joined by William T. Vollmann to discuss SHADOWS OF LOVE, SHADOWS OF LONELINESS, a two-volume retrospective covering his forty years of photography, painting, illustration, and literary enterprise across the globe. These beautiful editions are available 10/24/23 from Unnamed Press and Rare Bird. Order your set today!

William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Whores for Gloria, The Royal Family, and Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories (including The Rainbow Stories and The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction), a memoir, and eight works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in California.

Stay tuned for Part II, where we’ll be joined by some special guests to continue the conversation in a more traditionally-formatted episode.

Show Notes:

Be sure to read Vollmann’s new essay, “Four Men”, in the November issue of Harper’s Magazine. 

Credits:

Show logo (“An Incomplete Map of Vollmannia”) courtesy of Anna Roth. You can buy official merch with all profits going to her studio, Strollology!

Music: Jeannette Fang, Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 2 'Presentiment of Death' by Frédéric Chopin. Public Domain Mark 1.0 – No Copyright from https://musopen.org. 

Contact:

Email: vollmannia@gmail.com

Twitter: @vollmannia

Instagram: @vollmannia

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