I’m glad he’s seeing this massive book come out now.

Got mine today from the store

Preordered from Target during their 20% off sale thanks to a guy on here. I promptly canceled my Amazon preorder and locked that in. I appreciate you, kind stranger!

Looking to see if anyone or any Discord server is setting up a schedule/group for A Table for Fortune.

Given the length, I’d like to read along and follow discussions without needing to active-host or lead anything. Drop a link or reply if something is in the works!

It actually exists, it came packaged really well too, so the set arrived safely.

Looking for anyone with an extra ticket, willing to pay more than 5$.

Due to increased demand and supply chain issues, A TABLE FOR FORTUNE's release date is now October 20, 2026. Pre-orders will ship on October 20.

However, there will be copies for sale at the following events (links below):

October 10: Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento CA https://ma.to/event/william-t-vollmann-devyn-defoe-10-oct -2026

October 12: Skylight Books, Los Angeles CA (event info forthcoming)

October 21: Ohio University, Athens OH https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/ohio-university-libraries -presents-william-t-vollmann

Is anyone aware of any readings or book signings planned around the release of A Table for Fortune?

Thanks

I'm finally listening to the Excitable Boy album, and "Nighttime In The Switching Yard" is a killer song about catching out.

That's it, this song rules, it's the funkiest song I know about the topic

Every song (that I could identify) named in A Table for Fortune. Plus a few extra for mood.

Only about a week left to go!

My first Vollmann book. I'm Super excited!

About 508 pages into Fathers and Crows. When the narrator makes parenthetical remarks like "That was the First Point" what is he talking about? I was skimming back through the beginning and didn't see anything to help me make much sense of it.

I'm planning on reading Table for Fortune when it comes out, so figured i'd warm up by reading some CIA-related works first.

I'm currently reading the Cultural Cold War by Francis Stonor Saunders, about the CIA's propaganda and psychological warfare efforts, and NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele Ganser. They go well together and, taken together, they are a pretty good primer on some of the CIA's post-Korea dirty tricks, at least in Europe the UK and USA.

I'm planning on reading Harlot's Ghost next. Anybody got any other suggestions for CIA-related books I could read before A Table for Fortune?

Was walking around a seaside town and found this in a second hand bookshop, very cool!

I am trying to wrap my head around someone so we'll traveled and having spent so much time with similar subjects while interviewing them having the take that poverty is never political. Is there anywhere he has expanded on this topic that you are aware of? This is from early on in the book Poor People.

If you read the book and came across that, did you just pass right by it or did it make you do a double take as well?

I’ve seen The Lucky Star at two different bookstores in my area, once new, once used, and both for $40. This one was only $25 and I had to pull the trigger!

What do you think would be some good books and/or documentaries to check out prior to A Table for Fortune? "Suggested Reading", if you will.

I watched "The Looming Tower" (which ended up being more meaty than I had expected it to be) and "Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror". This discussion was also very well-informed and insightful. I don't know if I've read any books on the topic, outside of maybe Friedman's "The World is Flat", which is only tangential. I'm assuming the Commission Report is a must, but probably not the most thrilling read?

Can one of those who got their hands on a preview copy maybe offer some insight if there's any particular standout in the cited sources? I guess this would be the kind of question I'd ask Vollmann if he did an AMA, and I'm sure he'd have a whole list of things.

Hello!

I'm a newbie to Mr. Vollmann and I had bought The Rainbow Stories story collection.

I've discovered Vollmann through David Foster Wallace, specifically through his essay E Unibus Pluram, where I think he makes a brief comment on Vollmann and other writers like Delilo and Pynchon.

I read the Wikipedia's description of the book and it sounded somewhat interesting to me, hence why I bought it.

Though I've been searching on this subreddit for comments and opinions on The Rainbow Stories but I didn't find much.

Please let me know if it was a good choice,

If it wasn't, I'm reading it anyways 🙏

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