Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson

Dec 4 ’03

Dear Laura:

Do forgive the silence. I appear to have gone to 938,627 MDs since my last. No, only a few, just seems that way. // You’d never told me you were a poet, you know?²⁰ So how’d I know? I sure do wish you luck on placing a book. // I just saw a first pre-pub review of my own new book,²¹ only Kirkus, but it appears I am single-handedly keeping American lit significant. I wonder if guys like Roth or Barth or DeLillo know that, poor deluded souls.

Meantime I turn 76 on 12/20. About eighteen months ago I was 27.

Thine—

David

20 I had, in my very first letter.

21 Vanishing Point.