MJ: Do you ever think of your works as having a future in a digital form?
WV: Sure. Why not? But I’d be happy if they had a paper future as well. You know, I have some people living in my parking lot, and they don’t have laptops. Sometimes I see them reading. A book is such a great piece of technology in that regard. You don’t need batteries. You don’t need anything but daylight.
(William T. Vollmann er aktuell med boka Imperial, et journalistisk arbeide om grenselandet mellom USA og Mexico, som ganske sikkert ikke blir å finne på norsk i den såkalte nære framtid.)