THE IMMENSITY OF THE HERE AND NOW: A NOVEL OF 9.11

From: The Village Voice | Date: September 10, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Paul West's Novel Blends 9-11, Philosophy, and Nigella THE IMMENSITY OF THE HERE AND NOW: A NOVEL OF 9.11 By Paul West Voyant, 231 pp., $23 FOREVER BUMMER

What would a proper novelistic response be to the attacks of 9-11? If everyone knows the central story, what stories can be told? A writer I know said that 9-11 shut down her capacity for fiction. Months later, she drafted a dozen pages in pursuit of what seemed to be both a narratively compelling and brokenhearted take on the tragedy, before realizing she was rewriting Graham Creene's The End of the Affair.

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