A Belmont Report

A William T. Vollmann Bibliography

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Vollmann. In order!

There are different, better, more complete, more refined bibliographies than the one I provide here. This list of 100 references (in generally chronological order) is to celebrate the publication (at long last) of A Table for Fortune.

KEY:  (Short or Long) / (Fiction / Non-Fiction) — Title. Publication. [Pub details: (Issue / Vol.No.)] Date (Year-Month-Day). [Pub pages.]

  1. LF — You Bright and Risen Angels. Penguin. 1987.
  2. SNF — “Scintillant Orange”. Conjunctions. 11. 1988-Spring. 45-99. 
  3. SNF — “The White Knights”. Conjunctions. 12. 1988-Fall. 172-222.
  4. LF — The Rainbow Stories. Andre Deutsch / Atheneum Books. 1989.
  5. SF — “The Grave of Lost Stories”. Conjunctions. 14. 1989-Fall. 221-238.
  6. SF — “Amortortak”. Spectator. 1989-03-11. 23-26.
  7. SNF — “American Writing Today: A Diagnosis of the Disease”. Conjunctions. 15. 1990-Spring. 255-258.
  8. LF — The Ice-Shirt. André Deutsch / Viking. 1990.
  9. SF — “The Quest for Polar Treasures”. Grand Street. 36. 1990. 70-84.
  10. SF — “Divine Men”. Grand Street. 36. 1990. 133-137.
  11. SF — “The Cave of Sheets”. Grand Street. 40. 1991. 35-50.
  12. L(N)F — Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs. Pantheon. 1991.
  13. SF — “The Incomplete Life of Amantacha the Huron”. Conjunctions. 17. 1991-Fall. 277-358. 
  14. LF — Whores for Gloria. Pantheon. 1992.
  15. SF — “Incarnations of the Murderer”. Postmodern Culture. 3.1. 1992. [Originally on The Internet. Then again in After Yesterday’s Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology. 1995.]
  16. SF — “Butterfly Girl”. Conjunctions. 18. 1992-Spring. 261-65.
  17. SF — “The Blue Wallet”.* Coe Review. 22. 1992. 23-36. [I note here that at least one authority on Mr. Vollmann’s publication record has said this publication, a essentially excerpt from Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epigraphs, was “apparently reprinted without permission”.]
  18. SNF — “The Prophet on the Road”. Los Angeles Times Magazine. 1992-06-28.
  19. LNF — An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1992.
  20. SF — “The Answer”. ZYZZYVA. 8.2. 1992-Summer. 98-99.
  21. SNF — “Alaska”. Granta. 40. 1992-Summer. 163-174.
  22. LF — Fathers and Crows. Viking / André Deutsch. 1992.
  23. SF — “ThE GhoSt of MagNEtism”. Paris Review. 124. 1992-Fall. 226-292. 
  24. SNF — “Tiny Immortals”. Harpers. 1992-10. 29-30. 
  25. SNF — “Welcome to Hell”. Los Angeles Times Magazine. 1992-10-18. 19.
  26. SF — “DeSade’s Last Stand”. Esquire. 1992-11. 161-176.
  27. SNF —“Pornography’s Top Components”. Fiction International. 22. 1992-Fall. 45-47.
  28. SF — “San Diego, California, U.S.A. (1988)”. Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation. 1993. 167-171.
  29. SNF — “The Arctic”. Outside Magazine. 1993-03. 345-352.
  30. SNF — “Letter from Somalia: Killing Time with the Widowmakers”. Esquire. 1993-05. 63-66.
  31. SNF — “Something to Die For.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction. 13.2. 1993. 25-27.
  32. SF — “From The Rifles”. Review of Contemporary Fiction. 13.2. 1993-Summer. 29-38.
  33. SF — “Yellow Rose”. Love is Strange. 1993. 150-157.
  34. SF — “The Cloud Shirt”. Grand Street. 46. 1993. 184-212. 
  35. SNF — “Art and Politics”. Conjunctions. 21. 1993-Fall. 345-352.
  36. SNF — “The Best Things in Life Aren’t Free”. Esquire. 1993-10.
  37. LF — Butterfly Stories. Grove. 1993.
  38. SNF — “Sex Slave”. Spin Magazine. 1993-12.
  39. LF — The Rifles. Viking / Andre Deutsch. 1994.
  40. SNF — “Last Days at the Bakery: Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992)”. Story. 42.2. 1994-Spring. 42-43.
  41. SNF — “Bloodsport”. Spin. 1994-05. 48-51.
  42. SNF — “The Opium King”. Spin. 1994-06.
  43. SNF — “Under the Grass”. Grand Street. 48. 1994. 122-130.
  44. SNF — “A Traveler’s Epitaph”. ZYZZYVA 10.4. 1994. 25. 
  45. SNF — “How to Drink Beer”. Esquire. 1994-08. 103-105.
  46. SNF — “The War Never Came Here”. Spin. 1994-11.
  47. SNF — “Pages from The Atlas: New York”. Grand Street. 51. 1995-Winter. 12-17.
  48. SF — “You See, I Love Life”. Grand Street. 53. 1995-Summer. 146-153. 
  49. SNF — “Almost Heaven”. Spin. 1995-09.
  50. SNF — “Hundertwasser: Night Train, 1978”. ArtForum. 1996-02. 66.
  51. SNF — “SYSOUT=A”. Review of Contemporary Fiction. 16.1. 1996-Spring. 109-111.
  52. SF — “The Rifles: from The Atlas”. Grand Street. 56. 1996-Spring. 190-198.
  53. LF — The Atlas. Viking. 1996.
  54. SNF — “Edgy Pleasures”. Esquire. 1996-06. 76-77.
  55. SNF — “Doctor’s Orders: An Unnatural History of the Dead”. San Francisco Examiner. 1997-07-20.
  56. SNF — “Writing” Why I Write: Thoughts on the Practice of Fiction.1998.
  57. SNF — “Melville’s Magic Mountain.” Civilization. 5.1. 1998. 
  58. SNF — “Overlooking Geary Street”. San Francisco Examiner. 1999-04-18.
  59. SF — “The Saviors”. The New Yorker. 1999-06-21. 58-70.
  60. SNF — “The Very Short History of Nunavut”. Outside Magazine. 1999-07.
  61. SNF — “End of Days”. Gear Magazine. 2000-04. 
  62. SNF — “Letter from Afghanistan: Across the Divide”. The New Yorker. 2000-05-15.
  63. SNF — “The Bell-Like Ping of Freezing Sweat”. Outside Magazine. 2000-06.
  64. LF — The Royal Family. Viking. 2000.
  65. SNF — “Morrow’s Conjunctions: A View from Below”. Contemporary Fiction 20. 2000. 142-146.
  66. SNF — “Television Ate My Town”. Gear. 2001-01. 118-119.
  67. S“F” — “The Best Way to Smoke Crack”. What the Fuck: The Avant-Porn Anthology. 2001.
  68. LF — Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Viking. 2001.
  69. SNF — “The Price of Oil”. Gear Magazine. 2001-03. 
  70. SNF — “The Old Man: A Case Study”. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. 7. 2001.
  71. SNF — “The Stench of Corpses”. Los Angeles Times. 2001-10-30. 11-12.
  72. SNF — “Three Mediations on Death”. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern 9. 2002. 9-20.
  73. SNF — “Gun Club: One Nation, Under Guns, Divided, with Injustice and Jeopardy for All”. Gear Magazine. 2002-10. 
  74. SF — “Breakout Pt. 1”. Grand Street. 71. 2003-Spring. 44-62.
  75. SF — “Breakout Pt. 2”. Grand Street. 72. 2003-Summer. 176-214.
  76. VFLNF — Rising Up and Rising Down. McSweeney’s. 2003.
  77. SF — “Zoya.” Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader. 2004. 125-129. 
  78. SF — “The Conquest of Kianzor”. Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader. 2004. 239-242.
  79. LF — Europe Central. Viking. 2005.
  80. ANF — Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means. Ecco. 2005.
  81. LNF — Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. Atlas Books / W. W. Norton. 2006.
  82. SNF — “Catching Out: Travels in an Open Boxcar.” Harper’s. 2007-01. 70-78.
  83. LNF — Poor People. Ecco. 2007.
  84. SF — “Widow’s Weeds”. AGNI. 66. 2007-10-15. 58-68.
  85. LNF — Riding Towards Everywhere. Ecco. 2008.
  86. LNF — Imperial. Viking. 2009.
  87. LNF — Imperial. powerHouse Books. 2009.
  88. LNF — Kissing the Mask. Ecco. 2010.
  89. SNF — “They Just Want to Look in the Mirror.” Vice. 2010-04.
  90. SNF — “Exit Strategies: A Good Death”. Harper’s. 2010-11. 36-52.
  91. SNF — “Homeless in Sacramento.” Harper’s. 2011-03. 29-46.
  92. LNF — Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan. Byliner Books. 2011.
  93. LNF — The Book of Dolores. powerHouse Books. 2013.
  94. LF — Last Stories and Other Stories. Penguin. 2014.
  95. LF — The Dying Grass. Viking. 2015.
  96. LNF — (Carbon Ideologies: I.) No Immediate Danger. Viking. 2018.
  97. LNF — (Carbon Ideologies: II.) No Good Alternative. Viking. 2018.
  98. LF — The Lucky Star.* Viking. 2020. *[Though you know it’s real name.]
  99. LNF — Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness. Rare Bird Books. 2023.
  100. LNF — A Table for Fortune. Arcade Publishing. 2026.

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