Author Archives: Shawn Vandor

Kissing the Mask

Get a load of William T. Vollmann’s new title:  Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater With Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines. In other words, welcome to the work of William T. Vollmann.  I [...]

John D’agata, About a Mountain

Shawn Vandor’s first book, Fire at the End of the Rainbow, is recently out from Sand Paper Press Photograph by Skye Parrott