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 experimental fiction in this country' - readers will experience Markson at his wittiest and warmest. Laura Sims shares her correspondence with him, which began with an impassioned fan letter in 2003 and ended with his death in 2010, finally allowing a glimpse into the personal world of this solitary man who found his life's solace in literature.
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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 experimental fiction in this country' - readers will experience Markson at his wittiest and warmest. Laura Sims shares her correspondence with him, which began with an impassioned fan letter in 2003 and ended with his death in 2010, finally allowing a glimpse into the personal world of this solitary man who found his life's solace in literature.