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Laura Sims
* In this first-ever book of letters by novelist David Markson - a quintessential writer’s writer whose work David Foster Wallace once lauded as ‘pretty much the high point of…
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David Markson
Wittgenstein’s Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately…
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Francoise Palleau-Papin
Originally published in French as Ceci n'est pas une tragedie: l'ecriture de David Markson.
Although best known today for his singular, stunning anti-novels dazzlingly conjured from anecdotes, quotes, and small thoughts, in his early days David Markson paid the rent by writing punchy, highly…
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This inventive work drifts genre-less somewhere in between fiction, nonfiction, and psychological memoir. It contains literary and artistic anecdotes, quotations, and cultural curiosities.
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In recent novels, which have been called hypnotic, stunning, and exhilarating, David Markson has created his own personal genre. In this new work, The Last Novel, an elderly author (referred…
An elderly writer (identified only as Author ) sets out to transform shoe boxes crammed with notecards into a novel, and in so doing will dazzle readers with an astonishing…
Original copyright for Epitaph for a tramp, 1959; original copyright for Epitaph for a dead Beat, 1961.
Alive with the pleasures of language … terribly funny, formidably intelligent. –Washington Post
Unlike David Markson’s most recent works, including Vanishing Point and Wittgenstein’s Mistress, which David Foster Wallace described as pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country, his…
David Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called hypnotic,stunning, and exhilarating and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and…
