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Pub the October 1995 96 in Publisher penguin In the Open All Night. Ken Miller's images and William T. Vollmann's unflinching reportage combine to present an unsettling and to potently authentic document of our time. Imbued with a hyperreal poignancy. Miller's photographs reveal an America peopled by outsiders - skinheads. electroshock patients. addicts. prostitutes - the same people real and imagined. who inhabit the novels of William T. Vollmann. In tandem they present a stark yet human landscape in images and words of a world they both know intimately.