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"""This World is Not Your Home is a collection of versatile, volatile, and virtuosic essays. Each essay begins with the self and rappels deep inside and then catapults out, out to the mysterious and unfathomable world, and then out further, to the sun, and out further, still, to parameters of space, the limits of understanding, all while challenging any stable expectation for what an essay should be or even look like. From reckonings of God with Science to the near witnessing-how close does one need to be to qualify as witness?-of massacre to the special beauty of boyhood friendship, Vollmer's essays show us how common the exceptional can be and how the quotidian is really quite extraordinary and profound."" -- Lily Hoang, author of five books of prose including Changing and A Bestiary ""You don't simply read Matthew Vollmer; you enter his consciousness for varying periods of time. It takes a stalwart bravery on the part of the reader, but far less than the courage manifested by the writer. This World is Not Your Home is a remarkable achievement by a brilliant writer."" -- Chris Offutt, author of The Killing Hills ""Vollmer has great fun here with what I will call periodicity for want of better term. He pushes things to just inside the boundaries of domestication, another dubious term I'm not going to improve upon. The resultant of these forces is a writing that is well reasoned and sharp and so muscly that it surprises and gratifies."" -- Padgett Powell, author of novels including Edisto and Hologram ""The telling of an ordinary life can be made extraordinary through vibrant, innovative writing. This is just what Matthew Vollmer has done in his This World Is Not Your Home. Often hilarious, sometimes grim, his account sparkles with surprising insights."" -- Stanley Crawford, author of The River in Winter"

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"Matthew Vollmer is the author of two short-story collections-Future Missionaries of America and Gateway to Paradise-as well as two previous collections of essays-inscriptions for headstones and Permanent Exhibit. He was the editor of A Book of Uncommon Prayer, which collects invocations from more than sixty 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 at Virginia Tech, where he is Professor of English."

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