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The collection showcases William T. Vollmann's diverse visual artwork over four decades, highlighting his empathetic engagement with marginalized subjects. It features a variety of mediums, including Kodachrome slides of Afghan Mujahideen, watercolor sketches from Inuit teenagers, and various photographic prints capturing global landscapes and human experiences. Accompanying essays delve into Vollmann's artistic philosophy, exploring themes such as beauty, suffering, and consent in photography, while also linking his visual art to his extensive literary work.

This collection showcases William T. Vollmann's extensive visual artwork spanning four decades, accompanied by his insightful commentary on the creative process and the connections to his writing. It features diverse works, including photographs of Afghan Mujahideen, Inuit sketches, and various prints capturing marginalized subjects worldwide. Essays within the book delve into Vollmann's perspectives on the purpose of photography and the themes he explores, such as beauty, suffering, and compassion, making it a valuable resource for fans and scholars alike.

"After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard, the introverted, alcoholic, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much, Judy's retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction."--Provided by publisher

In the second volume of William T. Vollmann's exploration of global warming, he begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where coal is seen as both a fuel and a heritage. Over four years, Vollmann documents the devastation in hollowed-out towns with polluted streams and unsafe drinking water, covertly visits mountaintop removal mines, and highlights unpaid fines for health and safety violations, alongside the tragic stories of miners who lost their lives due to corporate negligence. His investigation into natural gas takes him to Greeley, Colorado, where he interviews anti-fracking activists, a city planner, and a homeowner suffering health issues related to fracking. When addressing oil production, he converses with industry leaders, including a former CEO of Conoco and a vice president of the Bank of Oklahoma, while also conducting discreet interviews with guest workers in the United Arab Emirates involved in oil-related labor. This volume, like its predecessor, aims to understand and listen rather than assign blame, except in clear cases of corporate and political wrongdoing. Vollmann, acknowledging his own role as a carbon burner, quantifies his power use and seeks to explain to future generations why society ignored scientific consensus, continuously increasing electric power demand while dismissing viable alternatives.

In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has established himself as a distinctive voice addressing critical issues, including poverty, violence, and the complexities of American imperialism at the U.S./Mexico border. He now confronts a pressing global concern: the human actions and factors contributing to climate change. Vollmann begins the first volume of Carbon Ideologies by analyzing the various causes of global warming, such as industrial manufacturing, agricultural practices, fossil fuel extraction, and the universal desire for comfort. He focuses initially on nuclear power, recounting his perilous seven-year journey to the contaminated no-go zones and ghost towns of Fukushima, Japan, following the 2011 tsunami and reactor meltdowns. Armed with a dosimeter and later a scintillation counter, he measured radiation levels while interviewing tsunami survivors, nuclear evacuees, anti-nuclear activists, and pro-nuclear utility workers. With his characteristic depth of knowledge, sardonic wit, and extensive research, Vollmann crafts a compelling and sobering narrative that reveals the ongoing crisis at Fukushima, challenging the comforting reassurances of official Japanese energy experts.

From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central – a dazzling fictional account of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce IndiansIn this fifth installment in his acclaimed Seven Dreams series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians, with flashbacks to the Civil War. 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 the previous year, 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.

Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central Watch for Vollmann’s new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018 In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death. Vollmann’s stories will transport readers to a fantastical world where love and lust make anything possible.

"Describes the 1877 war that pitted the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce against Civil War Veteran General Oliver Otis Howard."--Publisher.

In 1982, a 23-year-old William T. Vollmann took his camera and tape recorder and headed off to help the Afghanis in their war against Soviet invaders. Originally published in 1992, a decade later, his unique record of his fight with the mujahdeen as they fought against Soviet troops was held as a bold and original' achievement. Now re-released in 2013, this new edition of An Afghanistan Picture Show features a new introduction by the author and includes a number of Vollmann's photos and drawings from his trip to one of the most dangerous places on the planet.'