Kisseloff, Jeff. Generation on fire: voices of protest from the 1960s : an oral history, p. 228. University Press of Kentucky, 2007. ISBN978-0-8131-2416-2. Accessed September 14, 2011. "My name was Linda Jacobs... I wanted to have a name that seemed powerful and funny and distant and unforgettable. V seemed like a wonderful letter, and Doris Lessing had a lot of verandas in her work, so I chose the name Verandah Porche because I was sitting on a porch. The e was just a festoon. What got me started on my alien path was moving to Teaneck, New Jersey, when I was eight years old. Growing up in Teaneck was anesthesia. My mother was obsessed with our appearance. She really did say things like, 'What will the neighbors say?'"
