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William T. Vollmann

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Author who smoked crack with desperate people while researching his books to better empathize with his subjects, described as sweet in a stupid way.

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"The publication of William T. Vollman's 'Rising up and rising down' a 7-volume meditation on violence. Its a project that took years of design and fact-checking."
What are some of the most heroic acts by publishers? · u/Sexistupid · ↑82 · 2021-03-24
"I told her about Vollmann, who had a very funny solution to that— when he was writing his books about crack smoking desperate people, he didn't know what being a crack smoking desperate person was like. Instead of being a regular person and maybe imagining it, he went to go smoke crack with desperat"
Making the crisis hotline person laugh always makes me want to live · u/Crazy-Unit-8122 · ↑38 · 2025-03-14
"The publication of William T. Vollman's 'Rising up and rising down' a 7-volume meditation on violence"
What are some of the most heroic acts by publishers? · u/Sexistupid · ↑82 · 2021-03-24
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