Finished. Had this book for over fifteen years, and finally thought I should knock it out before A TABLE FOR FORTUNE arrives next year. It’s Vollmann at his best: dense, beautiful, insightful, empathetic. Also, recursive and indulgent. But hey, isn’t war?

Now that’s one big book that just arrived in the mail. (My current read, the 800-plus page EUROPE CENTRAL for scale.)

We ride.

Don’t let the AI slop get you too down. Went to Vroman’s for the first time the other day and remembering from that long-ass podcast you were on that they had your story collection, I grabbed it.

Only took a couple of decades but finally made my way to Vroman’s. Good store!