All of Us Together in the End
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- Key topics: ghost lights, Seventh Day Adventism, grief
- The small trim size makes the book approachable but at only 65k words–even though the subject matter is heavy–the book is a quick and absorbing read.
- Blurbs received from Jenny Boully, George Singleton, and Carmen Giménez Smith. One blurb forthcoming from Joni Tevis.
- Matthew Vollmer is an established author in both nonfiction and fiction. He has Vollmer’s work has appeared widely in magazines, including: Paris Review, Glimmer Train, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Tin House, The Oxford American, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Ecotone, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Antioch Review, Willow Springs, DIAGRAM, Portland Review, Tampa Review, Passages North, PANK, New England Review, The Normal School, and many others. Vollmer has received an NEA grant and commendations from Best American Essays and Short Stories.
- This is a book for people who love to read about obsessions. It is a book about grief, about loss, about Covid 19, but also much more. It’s funny and filled with family stories but is also an inquiry into how we grieve and what we believe, against all evidence.
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Created over 1 year agoAbout Matthew Vollmer
Matthew Vollmer is the author of two short-story collections as well as three collections of essays. He was the editor of A Book of Uncommon Prayer, which collects invocations from over 60 acclaimed and emerging authors, and served as co-editor of Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts. His work has appeared in venues such as Paris Review, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, Tin House, Oxford American, The Sun, The Pushcart Prize anthology, and Best American Essays. He teaches in the English Department at Virginia Tech and lives in Blacksburg, VA.
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