Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson

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was revelatory to me — it rejuvenated my faith in the possibilities of literature. It served as solid proof (ironically enough) that there

was

a living soul out there — someone who was not only trying to “make it new,” but who was succeeding wholeheartedly in the endeavor…your work astounds me for the perfect balance it strikes between innovation/art and compulsive readability. In fact, “perfect” is the one word I would choose to describe your work as a whole. Of all the books I’ve read in the past five to ten years, your latest three novels

(Wittgenstein’s Mistress, Reader’s Block,

and

This Is Not a Novel)

have been the most important and influential to me personally.

I cringe now at the grandeur of my pronouncement — but David wrote me back. He sent me a polite handwritten note the very next day, expressing his “deep thanks” for what I’d written. I was surprised, and consistently thrilled, when we carried on from there — exchanging postcards and letters more and more frequently, warming toward each other, and toward a genuine correspondence, with each one.

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