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96. Why William T. Vollmann's A Table For Fortune is Heavier than a Table and Costs a Fortune
This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.
Arcade Publishing chisels its name in infamy with its imposing, cinderblock-dense release of William T. Vollmann's 3,000-page A Table for Fortune, a book aiming to transmute ink and paper into masonry, erecting an undeniable monument to our darkest national impulses. Is this the homespun War & Peace, the GWOT-flavored Moby-Dick, the strident vindication of the novel in the face of impossible, ADHD-slanted odds that its publisher so badly wants it to be?
I have no clue. I don't have that kind of time, lol.
3,000 pages, come on.
Anyway, here's…
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