The Immensity of the Here and Now — Paul West

Fiction. In Paul West's 23rd book of fiction, The Immensity of the Here and Now, the aftereffects of [9.11] gradually come into view, then withdraw into a jungle of memory and hallucination...the tragedy perpetually accessible and elusive, too easy and too impossible to imagine—Ed Park, The Village Voice. Risky, raucous, filled with moments of audacious beauty, Immensity proves that West, our foremost word wizard, won't play it safe, unlike so many American artists.—Bill Marx, WBUR radio (Boston NPR).