{"id":38,"date":"2006-03-16T09:12:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-12-04T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T22:02:47","slug":"the-bat-segundo-show-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/the-bat-segundo-show-26\/","title":{"rendered":"William T. Vollmann (BSS #26)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo26.mp3\"><img id=\"image2931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/segundo26.jpg\" alt=\"segundo26.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wtv\">William T. Vollmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Bat Segundo:<\/b>  A bit over his head and not particularly uncentered.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b>  Copernicus, the relationship between religion and science, Dante&#8217;s <i>Divine Comedy<\/i>, Ptolemy, Intelligent Design and contemporary parallels, Iraq, life lived according to the &#8220;cash nexus&#8221; versus life in other countries, the Bush Administration as muse, politics in fiction, Shostakovich, on writing <i>Rising Up and Rising Down<\/i> and revealing individual human identities, research and <i>Europe Central<\/i>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/esposito.typepad.com\/con_read\/2006\/01\/europe_central_2.html\">historical inventions<\/a>, how Vollmann creates vernacular, repeating phrases, Madison Smartt Bell, the use of narrators in Vollmann&#8217;s fiction, Lautr\u00c3\u00a9amont, Vollmann charms his escort, the two narrators of <i>Europe Central<\/i>, and Vollmann the entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>(<I>Special thanks to Ami Greko, Paul Slovak and the fab folks at Norton for helping to make this happen.<\/i>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4705\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-38-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo26.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo26.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo26.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo26.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=38-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo26.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo26.mp3\">Download<\/a> (24.1MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: William T. 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