Archive for the 'William T. Vollmann Studies' Category

Essay on Vollmann’s Seven Dreams in New Critical Anthology

November 2, 2009

Continuing my literay scholarship in all things William T. Vollman Studies, my essay on Native America myths found in his Seven Dreams Series is included in the above anthology, published now by Mythopetic Press.

Some Amazon stuff

August 10, 2009

I have some new stuff on Amazon (and elsewhere):
Cover not up yet, but you can now order my new collection of erotic fictions, Sexy Strumpets and Troublesome Trollops, companion to How to Have an Affair and Other Instructions.
Drama, The Dress, and The Comfort of Women available in Kindle format, and you can also get ebook [...]

William Vollmann Crit Book Now Out!

July 14, 2009

My book on William T. Vollmann is now out from McFarland and Company.  You can get it from the publisher or from the usual outlets like Amazon, BN.com, etc., to have and to hold.

Publications Update This Week

May 15, 2009

Essay, “Tijuana and Tramadol, in new issue of  Life Writing.

Short story, “Cyclops,” in the new issue of New Yorkl Tyrant.
Essay, “Anthropology of the Memorial,” and review of Cancer and Death accepted/copy-edited/soon to appear at FQS.
Working on copy-edit and index of William T. Vollmann: A Critical Study. Should be out in June.
Star Trek: A Post-structural Critique [...]

William T. Vollmann: A Critical Study

May 11, 2009

Have been proofing galleys and creating index for my critical book on William T. Vollmann.  It goes to the printer May 30 and should be published early July by McFarland and Co., which has contracted three other books from me: an anthology I am editing, First Person Scoiology (2010), a book on women in Raymond [...]

A few things…

March 23, 2009

Will be doing writer’s audio commentary for DVD extras of The Watermelon, out this summer in a package deal from Celebrity Video Distribution.
Will be shooting sort doc in Tijuana early April.
May be writing a book on micro blogging for Polity, a great academic publisher in the UK.
Got copy ed’s notes for my story, “The [...]

Current Projects I am Trying, TRYING to Finish and Get Out the Door, Arrarah!

January 20, 2009

1. Revisions on Star Trek TV crit monograph.
2. Finish Zombie Girls from Jupiter Attack! — novel
3. Get first 100 pages of Lunch on the Grass done to send out. Long novel.
4. Finish critical book: Women in the Stories and Life of Raymond Carver.
5.  Revise Gordon Lish book, once peer review reports come in.
6. Cyberpunk novel/future [...]

My Critical Study on William T. Vollmann

October 26, 2008

This one will be out April, 2009.
Talking bugs, electricity, the founding of empires, hobos, Nazis, whores, violence, drugs, murder, secret cabals, Heaven, Hell—William T. Vollmann is a writer of enormous novels that are stuffed with entire worlds of creation and destruction. This first ever book-length critical study traces his career to date with chapters devoted [...]