David Markson

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• ISBN 1564781321
• 193 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
• $12.95
The Last Novelist
06/05/2012
I am considering abandoning this review of David Markson’s “Notecard Quartet.” It’s rare that I get to review a book I would much rather just hand you, rarer still I’d have to hand it off while admitting, I have no idea why this works, it should fall apart, but it’s beautiful. As a writer, I…
• Book: Reader’s Block
• Author: David Markson
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Joseph Bates
Joseph Bates’s stories have appeared in such places as New Ohio Review, Identity Theory, and the South Carolina Review.  He is the author of The Nighttime Novelist, published in 2010 by Writer’s Digest Books, and teaches in the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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• ISBN 9781564782113
• 248 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
• $12.95
Reading this novel, you get the feeling this is what Ozzy Osbourne might have documented as “going off the rails in a Crazy Train,” had Sharon advised him to go to University and get an English Literature degree.
10/06/2011
One of the most famous Kōans goes something like: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” Before you get all worked up and run to the Zen section of your newly-purchased IKEA bookshelf (dare I say, that is one handsome bibliopegy!), relax: Bart Simpson has already figured it out. But now dig this: what…
• Book: Wittgenstein’s Mistress
• Author: David Markson
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Alex M. Pruteanu
Alex has published fiction in [PANK], Connotation Press, Specter Magazine, and others. He is the author of novella Short Lean Cuts.