William Vollmann's guest appearances

William Vollmann

TSF - O Livro do Dia - Podcast

In The Moment podcast

The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library Events

Reza Aslan

Mario Livio

Paul Theroux

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Howard Jacobson

Oliver Sacks

Carmen Maria Machado

Sarah McBride

Ijeoma Oluo

Colson Whitehead

Luvvie Ajayi

Patti Smith

Emily Dickinson

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Zadie Smith

OwlTail

William Vollmann's 'The Dying Grass' depicting the Nez Perce War is the latest in the National Book Award-winning author's series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and Europeans. -- Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann’s main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend and killer. -- Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, "The Dying Grass" is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time. -- Praise for 'The Dying Grass': "...this virtuoso, polyphonic saga of invasion, resistance, forced exodus, and conquest flows, whirls, and mesmerizes with riverine dynamics, and it is as large, encompassing, and deeply felt as it needs to be to do justice to its momentous subject.” (Booklist); "...Vollmann's vivid reconstruction is believable and achingly beautiful, as often rendered in a kind of poetry as in ordinary prose... Vollmann's saga is a note-perfect incantation.” (Kirkus)

William Vollmann reads from 'The Dying Grass'

Edição de 02 de Março 2018 - "Central Europa", de William Vollmann