First Dream: The Ice-Shirt
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03/31/23 • 173 min
In this episode, we’re joined by Sean Spillane to discuss THE ICE-SHIRT, the first entry in Vollmann’s ongoing cycle, Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes.
Sean is a PhD candidate in English in New York City. He specializes in Old Norse literature, and he is currently writing a dissertation that examines various translations from Old French and Latin into Old Norse during the Middle Ages. Sean also runs a YouTube channel called "Travel Through Stories," where he reviews a variety of books with a focus on translated and contemporary literature. He can also be found on Twitter and Instagram.
Show Notes:
Be sure to support Bill’s work by purchasing THE ICE-SHIRT!
Worthwhile supplemental reading includes:
Larry McCaffrey and Michael Hemmingson (eds.), Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader
Daniel Lukes and Christopher K. Coffman (eds.), William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion
Daniel Lukes (ed.), Conversations with William T. Vollmann
Credits:
Show logo (“An Incomplete Map of Vollmannia”) courtesy of Anna Roth. You can buy Merch with all profits going to her studio, Strollology!
Music: Intro/Outro courtesy of Aaron Gwynn; Jeannette Fang, Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 2 'Presentiment of Death' by Frédéric Chopin. Public Domain Mark 1.0 – No Copyright from https://musopen.org.
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @vollmannia
Instagram: @vollmannia
In this episode, we’re joined by Sean Spillane to discuss THE ICE-SHIRT, the first entry in Vollmann’s ongoing cycle, Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes.
Sean is a PhD candidate in English in New York City. He specializes in Old Norse literature, and he is currently writing a dissertation that examines various translations from Old French and Latin into Old Norse during the Middle Ages. Sean also runs a YouTube channel called "Travel Through Stories," where he reviews a variety of books with a focus on translated and contemporary literature. He can also be found on Twitter and Instagram.
Show Notes:
Be sure to support Bill’s work by purchasing THE ICE-SHIRT!
Worthwhile supplemental reading includes:
Larry McCaffrey and Michael Hemmingson (eds.), Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader
Daniel Lukes and Christopher K. Coffman (eds.), William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion
Daniel Lukes (ed.), Conversations with William T. Vollmann
Credits:
Show logo (“An Incomplete Map of Vollmannia”) courtesy of Anna Roth. You can buy Merch with all profits going to her studio, Strollology!
Music: Intro/Outro courtesy of Aaron Gwynn; Jeannette Fang, Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 2 'Presentiment of Death' by Frédéric Chopin. Public Domain Mark 1.0 – No Copyright from https://musopen.org.
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @vollmannia
Instagram: @vollmannia
Previous Episode
The Rainbow Stories
In this episode, we're joined by Daniel Lukes to discuss the 1989 collection THE RAINBOW STORIES.
Daniel Lukes has a PhD in comparative literature from New York University. He co-edited William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion (2014) and edited Conversations with William T. Vollmann (2020). His most recent book is Black Metal Rainbows (2023), and he can be found on Twitter at @danielukes.
Show Notes:
Daniel Lukes and Christopher K. Coffman (eds.), William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion
Daniel Lukes (ed.), Conversations with William T. Vollmann
Daniel Lukes & Stanimir Panayotov (eds.), Black Metal Rainbows
Jordan Rothacker, The Pit and No Other Stories
Mark de Silva, The Logos
Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter (trans.), Solenoid
Credits:
Show logo (“An Incomplete Map of Vollmannia”) courtesy of Anna Roth
Music: Jeannette Fang, Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 2 'Presentiment of Death' by Frédéric Chopin. Public Domain Mark 1.0 – No Copyright from https://musopen.org; Nature, Do A Krime. BMG Music/ Zoo Entertainment, 1995. Used with permission of Hugh Bonar.
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @vollmannia
Instagram: @vollmannia
Next Episode
Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness with William T. Vollmann
In Part I of this special episode, we’re joined by William T. Vollmann to discuss SHADOWS OF LOVE, SHADOWS OF LONELINESS, a two-volume retrospective covering his forty years of photography, painting, illustration, and literary enterprise across the globe. These beautiful editions are available 10/24/23 from Unnamed Press and Rare Bird. Order your set today!
William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Whores for Gloria, The Royal Family, and Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories (including The Rainbow Stories and The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction), a memoir, and eight works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in California.
Stay tuned for Part II, where we’ll be joined by some special guests to continue the conversation in a more traditionally-formatted episode.
Show Notes:
Be sure to read Vollmann’s new essay, “Four Men”, in the November issue of Harper’s Magazine.
Credits:
Show logo (“An Incomplete Map of Vollmannia”) courtesy of Anna Roth. You can buy official merch with all profits going to her studio, Strollology!
Music: Jeannette Fang, Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 2 'Presentiment of Death' by Frédéric Chopin. Public Domain Mark 1.0 – No Copyright from https://musopen.org.
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @vollmannia
Instagram: @vollmannia
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