/lit/ - Literature

>>13248675
>greatest living american writer did exactly what you wanted before you knew you wanted it
>you don't even know his name
>you don't even know what book I'm talking about

>>12936006
Not the anon you're replying to, but jesus, more people on this board need to read Vollmann. His first novel "You Bright and Risen Angels" is literally about a war between insects (representing nature, wilderness, ludditism) and transhumanist electric-men. Fun as hell, thirty years ahead of its time, literally about ecological collapse in a globalized techocracy

>greatest living american writer
>you don't even know his name

>>12542465

you sure contra
you sure
sure you're sure?

>>12465830
Faulkner and James? Bold choices anon.

What about pic related?
William T. Vollmann

>>12156614
>vollmann is boring
top kek

>>12156666
Imperial is absolutely hypnotic. I didn't expect to like it. I couldn't stop reading it. Vollmann is a genius. Too bad he doesn't think women are really people. Otherwise, he'd've won the Nobel by now.

>>12157005
He also threw her THROUGH a glass table. He stalked another woman (mary karr) for about a year. Wrote her letters like "talk to me or I'll kill your husband and then myself." In grad school, he and his girlfriend got into a fight driving thru Arizona. He stopped the car, pushed her out, locked the door and drove off. Wallace was a gigantic shitbag for all except the last five or so years of his life.

>>12086444

>When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it

uh
no
>pic related

The smoothbrains in this thread holy shit

Oi. What do you motherfuckers think of William T. Vollmann? What's a good place to start? Seems like an interesting guy.