Paul Slovak on the Paradoxical Task of Editing William T. Vollmann

Paul Slovak on the Paradoxical Task of Editing William T. Vollmann

'Imperial' was not actually "line-edited during a 36-hour peyote séance by the ghosts of John Steinbeck, Jack London, and Sinclair Lewis."

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