A post-cyber "Pilgrim's Progress. Was is half-poem, half-narrative, a nomadic history whose main character is the fleetingness of information itself. The novel's title figure, the word was, marks that instant of utterance outside the present; neither past nor future but rather the interstitial space of any telling. Like Ariel in flight, Was takes place before you can say 'come' and 'go, ' slipping away before you can breath...