(BOSTON) With forecasters of doom debating the end of reading, of publishing and of literacy in general, what should we make of William T. Vollmann’s forthcoming novel, “A Table for Fortune”?
Spanning four volumes at 3,000 pages, is it madness? A determined attempt to silence print’s naysayers?
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