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Jonathan wrote: "Man, for an event named after a Native American, that site seems full of very white faces..."wiki demographics ::
"The racial makeup of the city was 94.7% White, 0.7% African American, 0.9% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.5% Pacific Islander, 0.7% from other races, and 2.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.0% of the population."
The Nez Perce reservation is Northeast from there, in Idaho.
Jonathan wrote: "As is my birthday! Guess what I will be getting for a present... "Tix to Chief Joseph Days?
I haven’t yet read “The Dying Grass,” but I can anticipate the dying trees. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/s...
What no one is talking about is that the paper used for The Dying Grass will be made from pulp generated by a Native American owned and operated lumber mill located in the Great Pacific Northwest.
http://www.yakamaforestproducts.com/
[this has been an nr=sponsored internet rumor]
Release date, July 28. Can't be a coincidence that Chief Joseph Days -- "Always the last week in July"!http://www.chiefjosephdays.com/rodeo/
and....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Jo...
In case you were wondering ::"William Vollmann’s upcoming novel is “quite a bit shorter than ‘War & Peace'”"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/s...
Bill had reviewed this year's Pulitzer in fiction ::"Darkness Visible: ‘All the Light We Cannot See,’ by Anthony Doerr" May 8, 2014 --
“All the Light We Cannot See” is more than a thriller and less than great literature. As such, it is what the English would call “a good read.” Maybe Doerr could write great literature if he really tried. I would be happy if he did.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/boo...
T.R. wrote: "I got mine for $450 in mint other than split slipcase, which is the norm, apparently."Yep. And 450 isn't too bad.
Do believe I've not seen that one. Thanks!
Big price drop on RURD ::@ amazon we now have the following (low $ had been 600) --
340 (good)
350 (good, no slipcase)
440 (good)
500 (Like new!)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listin...
see also which are perhaps cross-listings at abe for 500 & 450 ::
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Searc...
Herding Vollmann's a little like herding cats."Letter of Recommendation: The Gnostic Scriptures"
APRIL 10, 2015
Letter of Recommendation By WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/mag...
Fortunately, "I am no Gnostic. I reject the notion that we are imprisoned in the error called matter and that our creator may be deficient or even wicked. To me, matter is beauty, whether or not it includes error, and beauty’s inevitable decay is pure tragedy. I feel grateful to live in this world. But why it must be so cruel I will never understand. The Gnostic scriptures sometimes beguile me into believing that the real voice will awaken me. If that happens, I mean to get drunk from drinking light."
George wrote: "It is nice to find links to Vollmann's Seven Dreams series in other books. This quote is in the Skinheads section of The Rainbow Stories:"That's sort of how he describes his original impulse for his Dreams in interviews he's given. Before the concrete, the bogs and forests.
I think one thing that helps make RURD more a possibility, possibly, in terms of a second edition by McSweeney's, is that McSweeney's is currently converting themselves to a non-profit. Which could mean grants. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/an-ex...Or, maybe some RURD supporter with a lot of extra cash can get that tax deduction......
James wrote: "By the way, where is Zettels Traum ? That production is taking forever. "RURD. W&M. Zettel's Traum. It's not like we're putting any major pressure on the publishing industry to produce books no one will read!! ; )
Greg wrote: " The technology was new back then before Kindle and he answered that have numerous photographs and notes made that a bad option. However, the tech has come long way and photographs (even color on a tablet) are no trouble. I think it could be a viable option now."Friend of mine got a review copy on cd-rom back in the day ; couldn't read it!! ; )
But yeah, ebook should be something to consider I hope. But even that would take a great deal of design work in order to get everything squeezed in there. I mean, I wouldn't think it'd be a cost saving measure, if that were the main concern. For example, right now we are waiting for a new edition of McElroy's Women & Men, and one of the hold ups is making sure that no errors that arise from the scanning process are left in the final product. And all of Bill's books are so heavily designed that there's that trade-off where readers can just pick and choose what fonts they want. [you should notice, I'm really just an ebook ignoranti, so what I say with a grain of salt...]
Yeah, okay, I totally didn't see the worldcat entry for the entire set. Here's NYC ::http://www.worldcat.org/title/rising-...
Only a few libraries catalog it per volume. Most have it as the entire set. Sorry for my slight panic ; hope there wasn't a run on toilet paper!!
George wrote: "Well, hopefully someone can convince some publisher to reprint it, and yes, $120+, is far better than the $500 range, but it looks like I will try and convince the library to purchase or maybe get ..."Yeah, I don't know where you are geographically, but for the NYC/Boston/DC corridor to have only one copy is kind of really bad. Meanwhile, put you zip code into that worldcat link up there and see what turns up.
George wrote: "I wonder what it would cost to get this to happen. "Well it really does need a new edition, not just a second printing. There's some obvious stuff that needs fixing (superscripts not correctly coordinated with endnotes, kind of thing I recall), maybe not new material, but I think it should be at least a 'corrected' edition. So that would add perhaps significant dollarage compared to a mere printing. I'd suspect that even in a pb, it'd still be at least $120+ again (which is pretty cheap).
But the major thing is that no one's really interested in Vollmann. It took, what?, two wars in Afghanistan before his Afghanistan book found a second edition. However, in the recently pub'd Critical Companion, there's a good case made for including RURD in the recent philosophical work being done on the new universalist orientation toward ethics ; Vollmann making an encyclopedicly styled methodological contribution to these questions of universalism.
Griffin wrote: "We shared a sad sigh and I settled for the abridged (and more convenient for outside-the-house) copy"atm, the best is US$450 @abe ::
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookD...
The lowest I've seen on amazon lately is US$600.
Oh and for crying out loud. There's only a single library copy within 700 miles of nyc ::
http://www.worldcat.org/title/rising-...
Anyone want to organize a campaign to get Dave Eggers to sink some more money into a second edition?
Greg wrote: " the book is really too long - even when skimming the lettuce prices."I think it still could have been long, even if it were shorter.
