/lit/ - Literature

Just recently listened to an interview in which Vollmann said he was dropped by Viking for dropping a one million word bomb of a manuscript on his editor about the CIA and 9/11. He doesn’t even know if he’ll publish it in the US, or continue writing. He doesn’t even seem like he wants to finish the seven dreams. Is it over for us vollbros?

>Perhaps you remember that zealous environmentalist, the Unabomber, whose critique of our society was not entirely wrong but whose aims and methods were poisoned by a lack of empathy? I read his manifesto when it was published. Angry, pitiless, certain of its righteousness, intelligent but fatally incapable of proportionality and discrimination, it made a repellent impression. His mail bombs accomplished nothing but the creation of fear, grief, and hatred. When he was captured I felt far from sorry.

give it to me or i'll do it

he's just being edgy

hes hetero, but he likes to 'research' his 'books' by making himself 'vulnerable' and walking around 'bad parts of town'

Where do I start with the BTK killer?

Where should I start with Unabomber #2?

Vollmann
Ogawa
Coetzee
Denis Johnson
Wolfe

In no particular order. I read so many books by dead people. Even some of my favourites like Sebald and Bolano croaked recently.

>>7134991
Something tells me he might be.

He was also a unabomber suspect before they caught the actual guy. I have only read two of his books (The Atlas and the Rainbow Stories) but they were both amazing and I wish I had heard of him earlier (got tipped off by /lit/ thanks bros). Plus two books by Vollmann is like 1000 pages.

tl:dr; Vollmann my nigga.