Vollmann is fucking dying, bros.I can't get over this. Arguably the greatest living American writer, and he's dying, and nobody cares. It's tearing me apart. It's like exactly what happened to Melville over 150 years ago. America doesn't care. America hates its real artists.
>>24684474Same man. I can't believe he'll be dead in less than 5 years if we believe what he's saying. He has me covered for at least 10 years though. I have yet to go through many of his books especially the seven dreams series. His journalistic writings are also very enjoyable.
>my favorite retard is... LE OLD how tragic
>>24684474Are you even American?
>>24684474Delores has cancer, not Vollmann. He is just doing research.
>>24684474Alright anon what's the entry point to Vollmann? I'm more of a prose reader than plot reader, and I don't mind long books. Get me hooked on this cat.
I lost Barth and McCarthy you can lose this literal who
>>24684548>my loss is greater than your because you have to measure your loss in context of retards
>>24684554> my loss is greater than yoursStopped reading. Correct.
>>24684555Let me guess, you "care" about your country,
=( I sent him some of my stuff and he was very kind about it. Europe Central was a big book for me. I'm sad bros.
>>24684579Are you German?
>>24684585No. Russian.Why?
>>24684596The only anon I ever encountered who I could see sending Vollmann their writing was German and I would not mind talking to that anon again, or his room mate who I talked to more. German Vollmann anon(s), Brautigan anon here. Hello.
Do we really need multiple simultaneous threads about some liberal who hates white people getting an STD from trans hookers or whatever he does for "research"?
>>24684605I sent him some of my poems which he what kind enough to like. I was not expecting to be this sad today.
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>>24684631How do you feel about Brautigan? Also, post a poem.
>>24684474>Arguably the greatest living American writerThat's Thomas Ligotti.
>>24684646lol.
>>24684635Alright, I'll allow it. Reposting from the other thread:>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
I'll be real mad when all these NYT types suddenly discover what a talent he was. America is not kind to its writers.>>24684643Here's the poem. Strange half pagan thing I wrote some years ago.> https://micz.substack.com/p/voice-of-the-fire
>>24684548I think what's hitting about Vollmann is that, as OP says, nobody seems to care. He can't seem to get published any more, that WSJ piece that was written BECAUSE he's dying is the first serious writeup he's had in... at least a decade? Maybe ever.McCarthy was feted and celebrated in his later years. Vollmann has been in eclipse a ton, has arguablly never been celebrated like McCarthy was at his peak. I'd argue he's just as great an artist, but, as OP says, nobody cares. That's what stings. He deserves to have people care about him the way they cared about McCarthy, but they don't.
>mccarhy fag be like, its actually about mccarthy
>>24684648Cope harder litfic subhuman
>>24684681Thomas Ligotti mogs that corncobby motherfucker
>>24684673I'mm a post a Herman Melville quote>And now, my countrymen, as an excellent author, of your own flesh and blood,--an unimitating, and perhaps, in his way, an inimitable man--whom better can I commend to you, in the first place, than Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is one of the new, and far better generation of your writer. The smell of your beeches and hemlocks is upon him; your own broad prairies are in his soul; and if you travel away inland into his deep and noble nature, you will hear the far roar of his Niagara. Give not over to future generations the glad duty of acknowledging him for what he is. Take that joy to yourself, in your own generation; and so shall he feel those grateful impulses in him, that may possibly prompt him to the full flower of some still greater achievement in your eyes. And by confessing him, you thereby confess others, you brace the whole brotherhood. For genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
>>24684689Hawthorne was barely acknowledged in his own time, too, he was barely better than Melville in this regard.Why does the United States always overlook its really great geniuses, and instead celebrate claptraps and mediocrities like Mark Twain?
>>24684474Why does he look like he's melting?
>>24684723Gravity is a harsh mistress
>>24684724The man is in awful shape, even for a writer. RFK Jr. could have diagnosed him just be looking at him. Alcoholic, or severe depression or both.
He legit looks like a serial killer.
>>24684729FBI had files on him when they suspected him of being the UnabomberAnd later they suspected he was sending those Anthrax letters lol
>>24684723he knows they're going to find the bodies
>>24684727Go back to Instagram you roastie minded faggot
>>24684735Look at his body posture and expression. This is a man who enjoys violence.
>>24684731If I only knew he was a writer I'd ask why, but looking at the guy I have no questions.
>>24684740He has written like 20,000 pages bro. He likes all sorts of shite
>>24684740His most extensive work was about violence and its justifications
>>24684751I've come close to buying that quite a few times.
>>24684751Makes sense. I suspect he didn't uh, choose violence as a topic, but was already intrusively preoccupied with it.
>>24684753I've got the abridged version, can't justify such an extravagant purchase even if it would be interesting to explore in fullMaybe the complete work will be released in more afforable paperbacks after he dies
>>24684753I hate the title. It's unserious and doesn't gel with the topic. I'm sure he explains at tedious length why he chose it and what it means in context.
>>24684757It is not a particularly extravagant purchase for me, i just never go through with buying it for what ever reason.>>24684758Plotfag? How doesn't "Rising Up" not fit with the topic? Rising down is just the inversion and very evocative as to what exactly it refers to in context of "Rising Up."
>>24684474damn, currently reading the rainbow stories as my first work from him. Hoping for the best for him
>>24684474where do i start with vollman to know if ill like reading him more or not?
>>24684474whats the qrd on him being "dropped by his publisher"
>>24684948>>24684949samefag
>>24684949His publisher dropped him because his book used too many fonts. This is literally it. Like, the actual, unironic, nonhyperbolic completely accurate reason, he used too many different fonts in A Table for Fortune so his publisher refused to publish it and dropped him.Apparently fonts are expensive.
I don't like long doorstopper novelssome of them can be good but I prefer to read books anywhere from 240 to 430 pages.And he seems to be the dude who mostly writes long bricks which kinda puts me off a bit
>>24685041So read his shorter books>b-but he's written long books so I'm put offWhy does it matter if he's written long books if he's also written shorter ones, just read the shorter ones>b-but I'm scared MOMMY MOMMY BIG BOOK BADFor fuck's sake you don't have to read the big ones nobody's forcing you to>NOOOOOOOOOO REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BIG BOOK BAAAAAAAD REEEEEEEEEI've had it. I've fucking had it. You don't want to read Vollmann, fine, don't. But why do you have shit yourself and roll around on the floor in your own shit like this you spastic fuck you imbesil you procurator of Syria, you blistering barnacle, you carbuncular catamite, you Ipsich Witch! What the fuck do I care if you read Vollmann? Get a hold of yourself, you're hysterical, you're babbling!
wsj had a thing about him the other dayhttps://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-last-untamed-writer-in-america-6d2a129f
>>24685064Too bad it's behind a paywall
>>24685061I honestly suggest you seek medical help or something cause that's some prime tier autism for sure
>>24685066>doesn't have a wsj subscriptionso use archive.ph my guy
>trannycorenah, I'll pass
>>24684488gr8 b8 m8 i’m str8 ir8
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>>24684614>William T Vollmann>“some liberal who hates white people”fake news + collusion
>>24685061based voices-in-my-head schizo poster… Willy T would be proud.
>>24685463>le erotic image of the author in bedSurely this will sell our book! Have a sample>>24684655
>>24685463Cool. I'll add it to my list. Thanks anon. I never knew where to start with this dude.
>>24685463>>24685563The story about Masada where he uses this faux biblical style is really cool
>>24685036why wouldnt he compromise on the fonts
>>24685634Artist wants to art
>>24685510a thoroughly dysthymia riddled, probably malnourished man in bed is your idea of “erotic”?…. okay…
>>24684474>it is colon cancerWas he having anal sex with other men?
>>24684646based
