By Andreea Ioana Pantor
The controversial new memoir Blue Money is about to hit bookstores on June 20th. For its author, Janet Capron, prostitution was a defiant retort, an exotic adventure that didn’t impede her ongoing search for love amid the ruined landscape of drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in the streets of 1970s New York.
WestView News likes to defy convention too, which is why Blue Money (published by Unnamed Press) made an impression. People are already raving about it. WestView Publisher George Capsis called it “electric” and the five-star reviews are piling up on Amazon Vine Voice (one Vine Voice called it “a masterpiece”). Even a sales manager couldn’t resist emailing Unnamed Press: “This is an amazing volume, truly. I can’t get over how damned good the writing is….genius really.”
Here is some of the early praise from other writers:
“Smart, lurid, and engrossing, Blue Money reads like an authentic dispatch from the dark side of 1970s New York.”
—Drew Nellins Smith, author of Arcade
“I was struck by how wonderfully Blue Money paints such a sharp picture of that time.”
—Kenneth Bowser, filmmaker and writer/director of American Masters’
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune“A modern-day Moll Flanders…terrifically entertaining and brilliantly written.”
—Phillip Lopate, preeminent essayist and recent author of A Mother’s Tale
