In an afterword to the forthcoming paperback version of his autobiography, My Life, Bill Clinton admits the 957-page hardcover original may have been too long. However, as Hillel Italie observes in an Associated Press wire story, the paperback version, due out at the end of this month, is longer—it’s 969 pages, due to the afterword. Interest seems strong, if the publisher’s claimed print runs are accurate: the book has a first printing of 300,000 copies, and will be followed in June by a two-volume, mass market-sized version, which has a first printing of 600,000. In the new, added section, Clinton talks about his heart surgery last September, saying that, as he went under anesthesia, “I saw a series of dark faces, like death masks, flying toward me and being crushed. Then I saw circles of light with the faces of Hillary, Chelsea, and others I cared about flying toward me, then away into a bright, sun-like source.”