To our knowledge, William T. Vollmman is the only alumni of SPIN’s revolving madhouse of journalists whom the FBI deemed a “viable suspect” in the Unabomber case. Following a tip that our intrepid ...

That thundering sound you hear in the distance is the approach of William Vollmann’s upcoming novel, “The Dying Grass.” Viking will release the book on July 28, but massive advance reader copies have ...

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William Vollmann is a widely-acclaimed American writer, best known for his National Book Award-winning novel Europe Central and for his powerful writing about violence and war. Within the FBI, however ...

Some books sprint; others take the scenic route. The heady, highly absorbing titles here earn their marathon run times. By Alexander Nazaryan William T. Vollmann’s novel “The Lucky Star,” part of his ...

Few authors write with as much insight into violence and war as William Vollmann. The winner of a National Book Award, Vollmann revealed in a Harper’s essay, “Life as a Terrorist,” that he was ...

Award-winning author William Vollmann reveals in the September issue of Harper's magazine that the FBI once considered he might be the Unabomber. Vollmann sued the FBI and CIA under the Freedom of ...

The celebrated writer William Vollmann has revealed that the FBI once thought he might be the Unabomber, the anthrax mailer and a terrorist training with the Afghan mujahideen. In the September issue ...

William T. Vollmann has seen the insides of his FBI file, and they aren't pretty. That shouldn't be a surprise, since the prolific writer has travelled to Afghanistan, the desert of the Imperial ...

What must it feel like to be William T. Vollmann, a writer so prolific and wordy he causes forests to tremble? He's the author of 16 works of fiction and nonfiction, books breathtakingly long and ...

It has been a season of giants in the arts. In New York, Jeff Koons’ “Split-Rocker,” a 37-foot-tall foliage sculpture of a rocking horse made up of 50,000 flowering plants, has given Kara Walker’s ...