wittgensteins's mistress: rejection list

[mudd]

david markson from http://withhiddennoise.net/:



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[William Hutson]

ha! amazing.

heard a pretty funny story on npr the other week about a woman who bought a copy of 'white noise' at strand in ny, only to figure out it had been markson's copy— he'd written all sorts of mean comments about delillo in the margins, like a running commentary.

[mudd]

apparently his whole library went for sale at strand by behest. would have loved to see that book.

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[nicenick]

nice markson piece here:

http://www.thenation.com/article/155374 ... id-markson

[alan c]

[quote][/quote]heard a pretty funny story on npr the other week about a woman who bought a copy of 'white noise' at strand in ny, only to figure out it had been markson's copy— he'd written all sorts of mean comments about delillo in the margins, like a running commentary.

Here's the background:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/07/26/al ... -fi-novel/

[surfer]

"For man with such a strong relationship to the Strand, I bet Markson actually requested his library to end up there, and for it to be sold and scattered throughout the city and beyond. It wouldn’t surprise me.

It is like scattering someone’s ashes."

beautiful.