CONVOLUTED

This is the email the great Howard Zinn sent me after he read CONVOLUTED in 2005:

George Stietz:
I apologize for taking so long to respond to you
after you sent me your book. It was in a pile of
manuscripts I was going to read, but my life is such
(that is, hectic, busy, too busy!) that I didn't get
to it until now. Once I started to read it, I was
immediately drawn in. You certainly can write! It's
an odd book, of course, doesn't fit any orthodox
notion of what a book is. Fragments, stories, a man's
story, a woman's story, fine poems -- all very
engaging, sometimes poignant, sometimes shocking.
Altogether, intriguing, fascinating. I imagine that if
you wrote a novel that wasn't so outrageously
different in form (publishers are so cautious!)
someone would publish it. In any case, thanks so much
for sending it to me. Have you written other things,
and have they been published? As I said above, you
can write!

Howard Zinn