{"id":214,"date":"2004-04-01T18:49:54","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T23:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=214"},"modified":"2005-12-06T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T21:03:01","slug":"war-literature-and-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/war-literature-and-the-arts","title":{"rendered":"War, Literature and the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a magazine<\/a> of that title, published by the U.S. Air Force Academy. The new book by Paul West that I published last year was just named Editor’s Choice in the current issue<\/a>. I’m proud of that.<\/p>\n

Reviewer Lt. Col. James M. Meredith writes, “Paul West’s fiction stunningly and perpetually deals with violence, trauma, the conditions and nature of evil. The Immensity of the Here and Now<\/a><\/em> does not shy from exploring and deciphering the vicious and randomly dangerous world that surrounds us.”<\/p>\n

He adds, “West is a writer who still believes in the transcendent power of literature and art, which is why I join many in considering him our most vital living writer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a magazine of that title, published by the U.S. Air Force Academy. The new book by Paul West that I published last year was just named Editor’s Choice in the current issue. I’m proud of that. Reviewer Lt. Col. James M. Meredith writes, “Paul West’s fiction stunningly and perpetually deals with violence, trauma, the … <\/p>\n

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