The fine folks over at The Bat Segundo Show scored a major interview with literary genius William T. Vollman. Vollman discussed a wide range of topics including Copernicus, the relationship between religion and science, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ptolemy, Intelligent Design, Iraq, live lived according to the “cash nexus” versus life in other countries, the Bush Administration as muse, politics in fiction, on writing Rising Up and Rising Down : Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means, research and Europe Central’s historical inventions, repeating phrases, Madison Smartt Bell, Vollman the entrepreneur, and many other topics.
Congratulations to Bat Segundo!