Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson

May 21 ’07¹⁰⁴

Simser—

I was amused by that line you changed,¹⁰⁵ which now asks if I sit staring into space on the subway, “lovesick.”¹⁰⁶

You’ll get a chuckle in turn when I ask Eric¹⁰⁷ to change the line that follows, from me smacking you upside the head to giving you a whack on the tuchas!

Hey, hope all is well. Nothing new here. (Well, that award.¹⁰⁸) Reviews very slow in coming in on the new book, but several due soon.

Love to you both—

D.

104 I’m not sure why there’s been such a long break in our correspondence, though once I came back from Japan, we began speaking on the phone more often.

105 He’s referring to a line from the interview, included in this volume, we were doing for Rain Taxi. David took the questions I gave him and basically scripted the whole thing, right down to my interjections.

106 I was teasing him about his novelist girlfriend.

107 Eric Lorberer, editor of Rain Taxi.

108 He’s talking about winning the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award in Literature for “exceptional accomplishment.”