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Imperial By William T. Vollmann; Viking; 1,306 pages...
EUROPE CENTRAL WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN...
...quiet giant of American literature, the maniacally prolific Vollmann won this year's National Book Award for his wildly ambitious, deeply serious panorama of life in Germany and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. With an empathy and insight that border on the psychic, Vollmann inhabits the lives of spies and generals, traitors and switchboard operators and artists (including the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich), all caught in the steel machines of war and fascism...
...homes of terminally ill patients. Swiss law allows assisted suicide, and I have witnessed many doctors "helping" patients die quietly, peacefully and humanely. Though we must make sure there is no abuse, death with dignity, just like life with dignity, should be each person's right. Brigitte M. Vollmann Geneva...
Griscom and Field, former co-workers at a small publishing house, were able to attract such writers--from Joycelyn Elders on masturbation to William T. Vollmann on venereal disease--simply by writing them mash letters and offering to pay them $1 a word--not bad for the magazine world and extraordinary for the Web. "I spend the majority of every day thinking about how best to communicate with writers," says Field. "And that's what did it." The letters work. Moody (The Ice Storm, Purple America), who doesn't use the Web and can't imagine anyone reading onscreen...