In the latest interview he says he only has a few months to a few years to live. His book A Table for Fortune, an epic four-part novel about 20th century American conflicts, will be released next year.
>>24678865i am in the same boat. ihope you will read my novel
Well, I'm glad to see he's used the time wisely. No one has ever written an epic novel about the American wars of the 20th century. Truly breaking new ground here.
>>24678865who even reads this weirdo? i only know who he is from "anons" posting about him here.
>>24679446>who even reads this weirdo?dude won a Whiting Award while he was still in his 20s, a PEN Center USA West Award for THE ATLAS, a National Book Award… he might go down as SPIN Magazine’s greatest journalist ever… who the fuck reads _your_ favourite author, faggot?
>>24678921piss off
Damn shame I got about 100 pages into The Dying Grass then thought, Life’s too short to read myself to sleep every ten pages. Really makes you think.
>>24678865So Seven Dreams is never getting finished?
>>24678865Fuck. I like him. Stop being contrarian faggots. His non-fiction, hictorical fiction is a style I really like.
WTV keeps writing and publishing despite illnesses and crushing grief, and I hope he lives long enough to receive a well-earned Nobel Prize in Literature.
>>24681906 A Nobel is not in the cards though, he's not well enough known. I wish I could force people to read his stuff.
>>24678921Not just wars. Everything. Including the CIA and politics.
>>24682091>he's not well enough known.that has never been a requirement kek
>>24680170is this bait? no one I have ever met has heard of a single one of those "awards"
>>24682143>hurrr durrr huurrrrWhat the fuck it's like one of those Star Wars sandpeople what's wrong with you retard go be retarded someplace else
>>24680567I believe he's mostly done with the Cloud Shirt, so we should get that at the very least, if only after he dies. I doubt we'll ever see the Poison Shirt, though.
>>24682173What is your source for this, brother
>>24680765I'm surprised he isn't discussed more on /lit/. A lot of people here'd like him.>>24682137I'd say it's more because his work has a more niche appeal/lacks the universal appeal of the kind of books/writers that win Nobels
>>24682183The problem with Vollmann is that his preoccupation with prostitutes makes significant portions of his work unpalatable to people who aren't interested in reading page after page of sex with dirty, disease-ridden drug addicts
>>24680170Awards mean nothingTime is the judge
Vollmann books I don't have yet:>An Afghanistan Picture Show (OOP)>Whores for Gloria>The Royal Family>Rainbow Stories>Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs>Last Stories and Other Stories>Lucky Star (no paperback?)>Carbon Ideologies 1 & 2>Kissing the MaskIf I were to buy one of these books (or in the case of Carbon Ideologies, two of them) in September, which would you recommend?
Vollmann writing about drones 'n shieeethttps://granta.com/drones-and-decolonization-vollmann/
>>24682143is this bait? no one you’ve ever met has heard of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD…. where do they grow you?
>>24682224>Awards mean nothingcope
>>24682900Calcutta
>>24678865>colon cancerOh fuck, what did Dolores do?
I am once again disappointed by /lit/
>What are those bruises above your collarbone?>Love-bites. From those two men. Especially the second one. My whole body smells like him.>I can't smell any other smell but yours.>Oh, yes you can. You can smell those other men all over me. That man-smell's as strong as gasoline. You can see the gashes from their fingernails and everything. But you won't admit it. It would be too humiliating. You'd start to cry, you pathetic jerk.>Are you going to take your underpants off?>You heard me. I told you you had to suck my tits before you could do anything else. Look how hard they are. I'm going to make you suck them until you can taste the other men's spit and breath and sweat.- The Atlas, p. 358
>>24684561I don't remember this part. Didn't know he was a coomer.
>>24684598>Didn't know he was a coomer.Nigga even Imperial has a whole chapter dedicated to how he liked to eat his gf's pussy and how sad he was that they broke up so he couldn't do it anymoreThat book is a non-fiction account of Imperial County's history and ecological conditions and he found a way to make it about sex, he's a hardcore coomer
>>24684598>Didn't know he was a coomer…. bruh, he might be THE coomer.
