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Tag: william t. vollmann

  • The Scavenger Hunt

    November 13, 2025

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    Nothings

    William T. Vollmann, The Rainbow Stories Read more

  • Folies Meurtrières

    November 7, 2025

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    Music

    My new album Folies Meurtrières is out today. Read more

  • They Shock Horses, Don’t They?

    August 6, 2025

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    Nothings

    The first execution by electricity has been a horror. Physicians who might make a jest out of the dissecting room, officials who have seen many a man’s neck wrenched by the rope, surgeons who have lived in hospitals and knelt beside the dead and dying on bloody fields, held their breaths with a gasp, and Read more

  • The Saints of Solana Beach

    July 29, 2025

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    Nothings

    From Kathy Acker’s diaries, c. July—August 1972, while living in Solana Beach just before meeting Peter Gordon. Read more

  • Psychodontics

    April 29, 2025

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    Nothings

    “Ha, ha, ha! You will be finding enjoyment in toothache next,” you cry, with a laugh. Read more

  • On the Horizon

    March 31, 2025

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    Nothings

    Word on two upcoming American Epics: Read more

  • The Ice Caves, or Rather, Caves of Ice

    March 13, 2025

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    Nothings

    Donald Barthelme, “The Expedition” Read more

  • Meticulous Preparations

    December 12, 2024

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    By noon on the twelfth of December the builders of the fort had completed their last meticulous preparations (and Roger had patted every inch of the ramparts to make sure that he could trust them to parade Parker’s standard along), but they did not actually cross the frontier until the thirty-first of January. Operations were Read more

  • Bound and Stacked

    December 7, 2024

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    Nothings

    I lost the romance of this placeand woke up old. One darlingfantasy shattered over the next,folding over a fist drenchedin my hip. The Christmas treesare bound and stacked upoutside, the air can’t decidewhat to make of itself, and weare about to throw a presidentout. You are not your mother,and each of your dead lives onin Read more

  • Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

    September 2, 2024

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    Nothings

    Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God. The loving Laborer through space and time. Whitman, “Song of the Exposition” Read more

Thought:

“I have to really feel a song before I’ll deal with it; and just about every song I do is based either on an experience I’ve had or an experience someone I know had gone through.”

Aretha Franklin

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