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 [...]
Tag Archives: Shawn Vandor
John D’agata, About a Mountain
May 21, 2010 – 5:43 am
Shawn Vandor’s first book, Fire at the End of the Rainbow, is recently out from Sand Paper Press Photograph by Skye Parrott
Fire At the End of the Rainbow
March 23, 2010 – 4:49 pm
Fire At the End of the Rainbow, the first book by Shawn Vandor, is a poised and unusual performance, an autobiography made of very brief chapters which eschew the typical surreality of short prose forms in favor of a less experimental, more vernacular directness. It begins with jokey pieces about men confronting men, but steadily [...]
