VOLLMANNIA

A TABLE FOR FORTUNE, William T. Vollmann’s long awaited novel on whatever we might call our national character - from Cold War to War on Terror - is available for preorder! 🔗 ⬇️ If not his masterpiece, then certainly yet another precious stone set in the crown of his oeuvre.

A Table for Fortune may be delayed, but if you want to get a spiritual sense of what Bill’s doing — I’d recommend you mindwing over “Airlift Idylls” from Europe Central.

“[…] so I aim to blow up all my old sadnesses if I can, and live forever free from corpses.”

Eventually going to get @ryanhasbadtaste on the podcast, but you all should all listen and subscribe to @vollmannia & preorder the American literary event of the summer. Vollmann is that rarest of literary talents—a genuine polymath of great moral weight.

🐐 @maxdaniellawton

A beautiful day in Sacramento

Michael Silverblatt: and your new book, a table for fortune, at 3000 pages would you say you are pagemaxing and brutally wordmogging William T Vollmann: I would say that Michael.

Clocking in for another shift at the Vollmann factory

new york mag im sure you could do a much more interesting profile on a friend of mine

“As for MOGUL, […] he was the shrillest, stupidest, most vindictive big liar since ... well, no; Hitler had hardly been stupid.” — William T. Vollmann, A Table for Fortune

happy that we led you to pick up one of Bill’s books! and we hope that our episode provides an enjoyable supplement (personally, it’s one of my favorites) 🔗👇

amazing things happening on r/vollmann

June 9, 2026

“Bob Mueller (a late appointee) would soon jump nearly as splendidly for the FBI: Bob, ran his evaluation, well understood the concepts of adapting and overcoming. (So did Bob's opposite number, Osama bin Laden.)” — William T. Vollmann, A Table for Fortune

“Matthew did not himself desire 𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘱. It now seemed to him, […] that wolfdom actually went far to define America, and maybe everywhere else.” — William T. Vollmann, A Table for Fortune

The final ARC is here and it’s spectacular.

Thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada, is The Remembered Soldier, by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay, published by @NewVesselPress! Congratulations!

DAVE made me do it.

— William T. Vollmann, Riding Toward Everywhere

I may not be the hottest guy in the gym, but I may be the only one who reads William Vollmann.