Join us in welcoming National Book Award winner, William T. Vollmann, to the Athena Cinema on Wednesday, October 21st!
The talk begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Athena Cinema’s second-floor theater. An audience Q&A and book signing will follow.
Admission is FREE and open to the Public – Tickets are required*
*Tickets will be available only in person in the Athena Lobby starting at 4:00 p.m.
Books will be available for purchase from Little Professor Book Center
For more information, visit the link below:
Ohio University Libraries Presents: William T. Vollmann
About the event
William T. Vollmann will be discussing his new novel A Table for Fortune. From the balcony-level of history, Vollmann depicts the last half-century of American politics, war, and life. A Table for Fortune is a staggeringly well-researched, definititve history of Aerican post-war foreign policy with a deft, moving chronicle of a family’s descent into resentment and gloom. At once a family drama, coming-of-age, and national epic, this 3000+ page, four-part novel may be William T. Vollmann’s most ambitious work.
About the author
William T. Vollmann is one of contemporary literature’s most fearless and prolific voices, the author of nearly two dozen books spanning journalism, fiction, and history. Renowned for immersing himself in extreme circumstances – running with Afghan mujahadeen, surviving alone in the Arctic, reporting from Fukushima’s radiation zones – he pairs journalistic immediacy with profound moral inquiry, earning comparisons to Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson.
His novel Europe Central won the National Book Award for Fiction; other major works include the environmental treatise Carbon Ideologies, as well as Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom, and Urgent Means, and The Lucky Star, part of his “Transgender Trilogy.”
Vollmann was born in Santa Monica in 1959, educated at Cornell, and lives in Sacramento.
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