Bennett's Cow-Eyed Girl

Echoing Aeschylus's tragedy Prometheus Bound Damian Westfall's new novel Bennett's Cow-Eyed Girl is a meditation on self-destruction creativity regret and emotional paralysis. Set during one rainy night in a darkened cramped apartment Bennett's Cow-Eyed Girl depicts the story of three characters. Murray Brater a writer in his mid-fifties who is writing a dictionary of nonexistent words. Dell Murray's twentysomething hapless assistant who does nothing but sleep. And Mr. Shreck an aging novelist with a ten year case of writer's block who dreams of writing an English epic in dactylic hexameter. Searching for self-discovery Murray finds nothing but regret. Searching for inspiration Mr. Shreck finds nothing but plagiarism. Searching for nothing Dell finds what could be meaning.