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 ...

As a journalist, William T. Vollmann has traveled with the anti-Soviet mujahideen in Afghanistan. He has lived for a year as a homeless rail-jumper, smoked crack and frequented prostitutes. He is also ...

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Author William T. Vollmann took a deep dive into the culture of "catching out." Vollmann hopped freight trains around the United States, meeting hobos, tramps and prostitutes. He writes about his ...

This year’s National Book Awards ceremony was expected to mark a return to predictable form. It didn’t. William T. Vollmann, a journalist and novelist with a cult following and colorful life, last ...

For a man born in sunny Santa Monica, Calif., and raised in, among other places, the heartland of Indiana, William T. Vollmann has displayed a remarkable ability to put himself in harm’s way. He’s ...

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ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA—A Baltic sun burned the noses of a thousand beaming grandmothers in the northern cultural capitol this weekend. For several days I had been in the tubercular throes of a nasty ...

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 ...

"I've always wanted to write fiction and nonfiction at the same time," Vollmann says. In recent years he's written nonfiction, but his new work is... William T. Vollmann Explores The Afterlife In ...

William T. Vollmann has been called one of the most important writers in North America, but is he important enough to foist a 3,352-page treatise on violence on the reading public? McSweeney’s thought ...