In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at National Book Award-winner William T. Vollman's A Table for Fortune, a four-part novel about the last half-century of American politics, war, and ...

This year’s National Book Awards ceremony was expected to mark a return to predictable form. It didn’t. William T. Vollmann, a journalist and novelist with a cult following and colorful life, last ...

David Greene talks to author Willam T. Vollmann about this latest article in Harpers Magazine. In it, Vollmann details his discovery, following a... Writer William T. Vollmann Uncovers His FBI File ...

William T. Vollmann must have three pairs of hands. While setting endurance records for typing, the California novelist-journalist-john has tapped out travelogues about Afghanistan and Cambodia, ...

NO BAD TAKES is a raw, offbeat documentary nearly a decade in the making, following the longest—and possibly last—literary journey of legendary cult writer William T. Vollmann. Capturing both the mind ...

Some of you miss the days when William T. Vollmann was simply the poet of the misplaced and misdirected in our little back alley, before he conquered the world and came back bearing gifts like his ...

William T. Vollmann and Larry Brown discuss their novels: Vollmann's The Ice Shirt is a vast historical fantasy inspired by Icelandic sagas. Widely admired Southern short-story writer Brown is the ...

"ABOUT NO GOOD ALTERNATIVE: An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production--the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T. Vollmann on ...

For generations of migrant workers, Imperial County--the California desert region where the U.S. borders Mexico--has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. Award-winning writer Vollmann ...

Paul Slovak on the Paradoxical Task of Editing William T. Vollmann’Imperial’ was not actually “line-edited during a 36-hour peyote séance by the ghosts of John Steinbeck, Jack London, and Sinclair ...