William T. Vollmann

The Escape Artist: John Banville on Georges Simenon

William Vollmann

Riding Towards Everywhere

Campfire Tales

Riding Towards Everywhere

the Professor

Doug Dutton, Dutton’s Brentwood Books

Must See Art

Adam Helms’ “Rising Down” and a benefit sale for Jennifer Chbeir and Aaron Curry

Jest Fest

Dave Eggers on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

Ask Mr. Gold

Dave Eggers on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

The Mortal Storm

The Deaths of the 20th Century

The Aesthetic of Excess

William T. Vollmann on his 3,000-page tome and the vocabulary of violence

Quiet Americans

British writer J.G. Farrell and America's missing novels of Empire

L. A. Flaw

The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology

Introduction

The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology

Reading in Wartime: A Post 9/11 Response

The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology

Letters

The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology

Letters

The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology

An Afghanistan Picture Show

The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology

Must Reads

Fourteen writers on their favorite book of the year

Double Agent for Cain

William T. Vollman and the case against God