Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson

Sept 29 ’07

Laura, lass—

November 5^th, that 92^nd St. thing is. But why in hell would you punish any good friend by making him/her go?¹¹² A., I’m only one of two readers — Will Self is the other one. B., Ann Beattie is flying up to introduce me, and surely ought to take some of my time. C., with no scenes, events, active moments in my work, I’ll surely need at least a 5 min. preface explaining whatinhell the book is all about, and how it works, etc., etc., if what I read makes any sense at all — earlier references to things that now repeat, and so on. Which means your chums will get about a page and a half of Markson for their $18 tickets!

Spare them.

With love—

David

112 I’d asked him for the details of his 92^nd Street Y reading (his first reading ever, he said) so I could tell friends in New York to go.