Revised cover (still some revisions to go) for the book is in. It includes a great blurb from Irving Malin, who called it in to Mr. West after reading the book in a 48-hour span (at least, that’s about as long as he’d have had, given the date that I sent him a review copy).
David Madden, who wrote the introduction to our edition of The Place In Flowers Where Pollen Rests, offered up the following (edited) blurb, too:
“[I]t takes a writer like Paul West to explore the deep psychic lacerations occasioned by [9.11] . . . Anyone who thinks he or she knows anything about that harrowing moment should read this novel; it will change their perceptions forever.”
Speaking of reviews and blurbs, if any of you Virtual Memories readers out there have a venue in which to get the book reviewed, and want to give it a read (it’s 240 pages), e-mail me. Just keep in mind that it IS a novel of 9.11, and has some pretty strong imagery.