The Dying Grass by William T. Vollmann

evergreen_web_banner.png

KBOO is open to the public! To visit the station, contact your staff person or call 503-231-8032.


Hosted by: 
Produced by: 
KBOO
Air date: 
Thu, 09/17/2015 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
The Dying Grass

Host Ken Jones talks with William T. Vollmann, author of 10 novels, 4 collections of short fiction, a memoir, 6 works of non-fiction (including the 7-volume treatise on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down), and numerous articles. His latest work is The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War, which is Book 5 in his Seven Dreams series of historical fiction.
 
Jane Smiley wrote in her New York Times review of the book: “Vollmann is one of the most idiosyncratic and challenging novelists at work today. The Dying Grass, like his other works, daringly pushes at the edges of the novel as a form, while at the same time demanding that the reader sit up and pay attention.”

As a special KBOO Fall Membership Drive gift, we have three signed copies of The Dying Grass to give away to new or renewing members. 

Download audio file
Genre(s): 

Comments

I can't wait to hear Ken and Bill Vollmann talk about this book, a book I know I have to read at some point myself.

Audio by Topic: