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Originally Posted by waalkwriter
Well Thomas Wolfe is now criticized for the same flaws; his unwieldy and incredibly expansive books, but his work is brilliant even if he never managed to move beyond his own life story and transcend himself in his fiction.
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Again, isn't Wolfe a fiction writer? The difference between fiction and nonfiction, as I made it, may be crucial here. Vollmann's nonfiction works much better when read as fiction, IMO.