"We Always Leave Things Unfinished" - by Alexander Sorondo
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William T. Vollmann is dying. In his Sacramento studio, he talks America, unfinished work, and the 3,096-page opus he finished just in time.
This piece was independently reported and self-financed. If you value work like this please consider becoming a paid subscriber. It helps make future pieces like this possible. He doesn’t have a cell phone or use the internet so it takes a week to get the answer but finally his publicist comes back with a politely breathless email confirming that, yes, if I can make it out to Sacramento next week William T. Vollmann will meet me at 9 a.m., June 23, at a small coffee shop that’s been built into an unsuspecting structure and then from there we can walk to his studio, hang out til around…
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