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Loner Author Charts His Own Course

Vollmann's new opus is typical—brilliant, but sometimes unreadable

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 29, 2009 3:46 PM CDT

(Newser) – Author William T. Vollmann is an odd bird—“a loner, a bit of a recluse,” Charles McGrath writes in the New York Times, “and a throwback: a wandering, try-anything writer-journalist in the tradition of Steinbeck or Jack London.” And his new...   Read full story »

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