William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part I

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The rise of corporate America begins with the ruthless acquisition of Indian land in this massively researched epic which evokes the language, the food, and the lost customs of the Nez Perce. This is the first of two conversations about William Vollman’s novel of the 1877 war that destroyed the Nez Perce.

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0:00.0	Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. I, uh, I start to float, float away from the earth. Have you ever smoked crack before? We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all jugglers in some way. Yo, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Hear Be Monsters.
0:22.4	The podcast about the unknown.
0:24.2	On the KCRW iTunes page.
0:30.2	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannon Foundation.
0:34.1	Boots.
0:39.1	Where we're we be without boos?
0:43.0	Where would we be without good?
0:45.3	No, Timber.
0:46.8	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:50.1	But where would we be without books?
0:53.3	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm.
1:01.2	Today, I have as my guest, the extraordinary William T. Vollman, Bill Volman, whose newest book in the Seven Dreams series has just been published.
1:16.6	It's called The Dying Grass.
1:19.6	It's a credit to its publisher, Viking, and its editor, Paul Slovak, and its writer William T. Voeman. Now, this is a book about
1:33.9	the Nez Perse Wars. When we say the Nez Perce Wars, it's the Nez Perce War, isn't it?
1:44.2	It's something essentially that lasted approximately four months.
1:49.5	Am I right?
1:50.5	That's right, Michael.
1:52.5	And why do we think of it as wars?
1:57.1	Do we group it with all of the Indian wars?
2:01.6	Maybe that's part of it.
2:03.6	Maybe it's the fact that the battles were so widely different.
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