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Prints of “Dolores as a Golden Monkey” - a transgender self-portrait by William T. Vollmann, limited to 10 signed, numbered copies - are still available via !
You can welcome a unique work by Bill into your home & support him directly by doing so!
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Honestly, I don’t know why these people even bother reading.
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“Don’t play Hume with me.” is one of my new favorite JBP memes.
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It does have Bob Dylan in it.
There's already the best Bob Dylan movie. It just doesn't have Bob Dylan in it
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Okay. Which translation of Proust are you reading?
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This is the actual opening to Millie Bobby Brown’s London Blitz-set novel
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Each day I am haunted
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WTV still goated in the realm of author photos
The aesthetics of author photos is fascinating to me. You have to look a little silly, but you can't step over the line.
This looks like three authors and one crime-solving vampire from a Netflix series that gets cancelled a week after it airs
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She will reveal the true identity of Elena Ferrante.
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Me & the boys on our way to see Greta Gerwig’s BARBIE
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Just interviewed Bill Vollmann.
You can imagine how I came across:
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@MeNabokov
He means Hume, the philosopher. He’s advising Mr. Borelli not to engage in rhetorical games.
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In a real reading slump. Think any of these will break me out of it?
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check out all these books I’m gonna read at my baby from months 0-13
i will never understand the obsession some parents have of exposing their BABIES to books…reading them books every night…buying a million baby books…
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Last book
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Next two books
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Confounding the haters by being the peacoated litbro reading not David Foster Wallace, but Kimitake Hiraoka, on WMATA.
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He’s been with us all along.
i possess what u might call an accelerationist view of the literary it girl. need the boys to start posting shit like this
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Just arrived and very hype for December’s book club
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for me, dialogue is the least interesting part of fiction
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Our next episode of
@vollmannia
will feature a very special guest indeed!
— William T. Vollmann will join us to discuss SHADOWS OF LOVE, SHADOWS OF LONELINESS.
The episode will release later this Fall, but be sure to order SHADOWS - out 10/24 - now!
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William T. Vollmann joins
@vollmannia
for Part I of our conversation on SHADOWS OF LOVE, SHADOWS OF LONELINESS! We talk visual vs. fictive framing, influences, ethics, upcoming projects, and how we might live with absence.
Listen here:
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Shall I?
no disrespect to the other competitors, but obvious right answer here.
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Milan Kundera called, said he wrote a book about you.
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The four best books I’ve read so far this year
The four best books I've read so far this year
(by dead authors because every living writer is the best author and you should buy and read their books—you should absolutely read JUDAS GOAT, LANDSCAPES, and WHEN I SING, MOUNTAINS DANCE, though).
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Regardless of outcome, I hope this tournament (kindly hosted by
@unburiedbooks
) leads folks to pick up - among many other worthy books - THE RECOGNITIONS, the finest debut novel I’ve read and a beautiful, brutal statement on how we try (and fail) to live the right kind of life.
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Obviously authored by not the biggest reader, as they would have realized that none of us give a shit about how many copies of a given book we own.
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10 favorite novels (no particular order)
Moby-Dick
Swann’s Way
The Recognitions
The Royal Family
How to Quiet a Vampire
Beloved
Ice
The Tale of Genji
The Pale King
The Malady of Death
10 Favorite novels with no repeat authors!
The Obscene Bird of Night
Frankenstein
Jazz
Light in August
Gravity's Rainbow
Three Trapped Tigers
Red & Black
The Lost Scrapbook
A Naked Singularity
Ulysses
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“It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.”
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For a long time I would take my lunch break early,
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This book’s appeal has somewhat eluded me. Gonna keep at it.
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not committing of course, just lazy and this was to hand
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Tommy B called, said he wrote a book about you:
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These are the four biggest gaps in my reading — and the most ardently recommended by friends. Hoping to read them all next year
#4in23
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NYRB should do a “Criterion Closet”-type series.
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What I’m reading
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I. The Tweeter Is Introduced, And Differentiated From His Mutuals
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is this sufficient reading material for a five day trip to portland?
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He’s just like me
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My ideal job is failed novelist. For my work to be discovered and published by the NNYRB (New New York Review of Books) 150 years after my death.
My ideal job is Rich Socialite, where I throw massive parties and flit around connecting people who should meet
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This book is sublime.
“As for lands, there are lands enough. As for books, here is one.”
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Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet
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The prompt:
Seems like a good opportunity to recommend John Williams’s masterpiece, STONER.
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An immense thank you to the folks at New Directions for an advanced copy of José Donoso’s THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT - available this April! I hope to share more about it with you here on Twitter and in the next episode of Vollmannia!
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Americans are simply not prepared to handle being in a country with Quebec. Dealing with its politics/culture would melt their faces like in Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
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Sure sex is cool but have you ever read William T. Vollmann writing as Edgar Allan Poe in THE GRAVE OF LOST STORIES?
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In celebration, thought it’d be fun to share my Dalkey shelf
Mulligan Stew. Eros the Bittersweet. At Swim-Two-Birds. Wittgenstein's Mistress. Trilogy. All these and so many more are on sale, now through the end of the year. Use the code DALKEYHOLIDAYS for 25% off all Dalkey Archive Essentials (including preorders).
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I have a tentative plan (i.e., untenable) to make it from ca. 1021-1922 this year.
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Me: I’m feeling despondent.
Therapist: You should try doing something fun just for you. You like reading. How about reading?
The Reading:
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And how are you choosing to spend your Thursday evening?
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Don Delillo is a lot like Nabakov. A great craftsman of sentences and clever use of words but ultimately there is nothing there
You close the book and none of it sticks with you. A ride at Disney land for people with masters degrees.
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seems insane that william tanner vollmann looked like this
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When did you first see yourself represented in cinema?
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“Please do not write in hip-hop language. Please do not write about porn. […] If you have to write about drugs, don’t write about pot.”
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And with the new year, BOTTOM’S DREAM has been restored to the Alexander Estate.
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It’s my pleasure to announce that William T. Vollmann is partnering with
@vollmannia
to sell 10 prints of “Dolores as a Golden Monkey”! Full details and a link to purchase below. A unique opportunity to own art created by, and support, the man himself!
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Me now that Maryland has legalized cannabis
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A friendly reminder this holiday season: forget about Kyrsten Sinema and instead watch Christian Cinema
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Born too late to be a weird, melancholic bourgeois writing slim volumes about lost lovers & hauntings in a dead city striped with atherosclerotic canals.
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Book 1 of 2024 || Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford
#novellaclub
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Gartenkonzert by Peter Weiss
If you see this tweet, you have to mention one of your favorite paintings.
I saw Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. It’s huge and fucked me up.
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3 out of 4 acquired. Just need the Proust.
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haul from my local friends of the library
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He has forged his influences, excesses, expertises, & compassions into something singular in American letters. He is a “morbid anatomist” par excellence of loneliness, violence, and love. Today & everyday I say: award the Nobel Prize in Literature to William Tanner Vollmann.
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I received news that a dear friend passed away yesterday. Ish has been very comforting today. Bromides are such for a reason. Be sure to your friends and loved ones know you care about them.
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Get to know me with four NYRBs
Get to know me in four NYRB editions this was embarrassingly easy
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Why do I do this? What purpose is it serving?
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You wouldn’t last an hour in the the Casa de Ejercicios Espirituales de la Encarnación where they raised me.
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*baron harkonnen voice*: my sot-weed. my free state. my maryland.
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I avoided Proust not for his “difficulty” but my misapprehension that ISoLT was staid in language & subject. I was completely wrong. The language is sumptuous, and he’s getting at something (childhood loneliness, nostalgia) that dissolves the time between 1933 & 1922.
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You win, Twitter
Keep on tweeting and you all might actually get me to read Ulysses
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Finally.
What books being published in the last half of 2023 are you most excited for? These can be new books or reprints by your favorite publishers.
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Between this & Blanchot & Celine & Derrida & Duras, I think we can say I’ve entered my depressive French arc
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Vollmann’s entry on the “problematic authors” list
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Feeling very appreciative of the brilliant publishers who have provided me with advanced copies in recent months. As a guy who reads, it’s such a pleasure and surprise to receive these early and help spread the word amongst fellow readers!
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authors i want to read before the year is over
- Bill
- Anna Kavan
- Ann Quin
- Anne Carson
- Marguerite Duras
- Elsa Morante
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Daša Drndić
- Ingebourg Bachmann
- Juan Rulfo
- José Donoso
- Péter Nádas
- László Krasznahorkai
- Bennett Sims
- Sadegh Hedayat
authors i want to read before the year is over:
- Robert Musil
- Isabelle Nicou
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- All Maurice Blanchot opuses
- Anna Akhmatova
- Marina Tsvetaeva
- William H Gass
- Julien Gracq
- Curzio Malaparte
- Lautreamont
- Paul Celan
- Tiqqun
- Gaston Bachelard
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