{"id":15868,"date":"2014-08-09T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-unaccommodating-nature-of-vollmanns-books-is\/"},"modified":"2014-08-09T13:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T13:24:55","slug":"the-unaccommodating-nature-of-vollmanns-books-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-unaccommodating-nature-of-vollmanns-books-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>the unaccommodating nature of Vollmann\u2019s books is what many of his readers respond to. His books are too long in the way the Petronas Towers are too tall, the way foie gras is too rich: the manner of their excess is central to their essence. Vollmann is neither a readers\u2019 writer nor a writers\u2019 writer but a writer\u2019s writer, which is to say William T. Vollmann\u2019s writer. The point he comes back to in conversation, again and again, is how fortunate he has been to maintain his independence in a literary culture that can be hostile to such independence. \u201cThe reader that I write for will be open to beautiful sentences and will try to see why I\u2019m doing what I\u2019m doing,\u201d he told me. \u201cThat\u2019s the reader that I love and the reader who loves me.\u201d I\u2019ve read a great number of Vollmann\u2019s books, but I\u2019ve skipped around in many of them, too. Fathers and Crows is one of my favorites, yet I\u2019ve read less than half of it. You don\u2019t go to Vollmann for structure or old-fashioned storytelling; you go to Vollmann for the sentences, the mood, the experience. You go to Vollmann for the same reason certain people chase storms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/118748\/william-t-vollmanns-dangerously-uncorrupted-literary-mind\">William T. Vollmann Interview: A Dangerously Uncorrupted Literary Mind | New Republic<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the unaccommodating nature of Vollmann\u2019s books is what many of his readers respond to. His books are too long in the way the Petronas Towers are too tall, the way foie gras is too rich: the manner of their excess is central to their essence. Vollmann is neither a readers\u2019 writer nor a writers\u2019 writer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-47W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}