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Just as the world appears to be losing its appetite for books, William T. Vollmann pens a 3,000-page novel
- William T. Vollmann is releasing a new 3,000-page novel titled 'A Table for Fortune,' which spans four volumes amid concerns about the future of reading and literacy.
- The novel continues Vollmann's lifelong, uncompromising, and ambitious approach to large-scale artistic projects.
- Its publication coincides with a difficult period for Vollmann personally and reflects broader challenges facing reading culture today.
- If 'A Table for Fortune' is among his final works, it culminates a career aimed at demonstrating the complexity of global issues beyond simplistic data and alarmist messages.
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Just as the world appears to be losing its appetite for books, William T. Vollmann pens a 3,000-page novel
William T. Vollmann has spent his career refusing to distill the world into dichotomies. Maria Moratti/Getty ImagesWith forecasters of doom debating the end of reading, of publishing and of literacy in general, what should we make of William T. Vollmann’s forthcoming novel, “A Table for Fortune”? Spanning four volumes at 3,000 pages, is it madness? A determined attempt to silence print’s naysayers? I have been writing about Vollmann’s works sinc…
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