{"id":34,"date":"2003-07-15T18:44:27","date_gmt":"2003-07-15T22:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=34"},"modified":"2005-12-04T08:07:38","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T13:07:38","slug":"its-a-movin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/its-a-movin","title":{"rendered":"It’s a-movin’…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revised cover (still some revisions to go) for the book is in. It includes a great blurb from Irving Malin<\/a>, 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).<\/p>\n

David Madden<\/a>, who wrote the introduction to our edition of The Place In Flowers Where Pollen Rests<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, offered up the following (edited) blurb, too:<\/p>\n

“[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.”<\/p>\n

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<\/a> me. Just keep in mind that it IS a novel of 9.11, and has some pretty strong imagery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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). … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “It’s a-movin’…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/blurb-tastic","url_meta":{"origin":34,"position":0},"title":"Blurb-Tastic!","author":"Gil","date":"December 9, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you a fan of the films of Hal Hartley? 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