Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson

Jan 14 ’04

Syms-o—

Book en route to you from publisher.²⁵ Indeed, it may get to you before this card, since with the wind-chill here well below zero, God knows when I’ll mail it. Ain’t goin’ out no matter what.

I’m pleased for you that Review²⁶ is interested. Write nice. Spell good. Punctuate proper, etc.

And don’t comment on the damned misplaced modifier I let go by right at the beginning of the novel — which two beloved chums have already pointed out.

Onward—

Thine—

David

25 An official copy of Vanishing Point.

26 He means Chicago Review, which initially expressed interest in my essay on Markson. I used this early version as a template for the essay that would ultimately appear in The New England Review in 2008.