{"id":108,"date":"2003-12-09T22:15:31","date_gmt":"2003-12-10T03:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=108"},"modified":"2005-12-04T12:51:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T17:51:43","slug":"blurb-tastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/blurb-tastic","title":{"rendered":"Blurb-Tastic!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you a fan of the films of Hal Hartley<\/a>? Well, Hal’s a fan of Paul West’s The Immensity of the Here and Now: a novel of 9.11<\/em><\/a> (which I recently published)! Here’s what Hal had to say about the book:<\/p>\n

“It’s a beautiful and penetrating evocation of the confused emotions and intellectual turmoil the whole 9.11 event brought into being, a mood I had no name for.”<\/p>\n

So do me (and yourself) a favor and buy<\/a> the darn book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you a fan of the films of Hal Hartley? Well, Hal’s a fan of Paul West’s The Immensity of the Here and Now: a novel of 9.11 (which I recently published)! Here’s what Hal had to say about the book: “It’s a beautiful and penetrating evocation of the confused emotions and intellectual turmoil the … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Blurb-Tastic!”<\/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-108","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-1K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/its-a-movin","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":0},"title":"It’s a-movin’…","author":"Gil","date":"July 15, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Revised cover (still some revisions to go) for the book is in. 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I told her that I was trying to write a longish piece on the Twin Towers and NYC, but the last two weeks have made it pretty tough for me to concentrate on\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/well-show-them-well-show-them-all-part-345656","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":4},"title":"We’ll Show Them, We’ll Show Them All: Part 345,656","author":"Gil","date":"August 16, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"In today's mail:\"Dear Mr. Roth,\"Thank you for submitting The Immensity of the Her [sic] and Now for our consideration. 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