(David Markson’s list of the rejections of Wittgenstein’s Mistress, from the back of the program of the memorial service at NYU’s NY Institute for the Humanities.)
"One thing I've learned since I was born / that I must die since I was born" (Robert Filliou)
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- My interview with Bob Stein is up at Triple Canopy as part of Issue 9.
- A thread at MetaFilter about Jack Green’s Fire the Bastards!. Tangentially related: David Markson’s library appears at The Strand; some of his Gaddis annotations have appeared online.
- Gary Shteyngart & Joshua Cohen on the Tablet podcast.
- More of Robert Walser’s poetry is coming out in English.
- Joseph McElroy’s Preparations for Search is available from Small Anchor Press; the text was originally published in Formations in Spring 1984 as part of Women and Men, but cut before that book’s publication; Small Anchor’s edition has been “slightly revised”.
- Trevor Winkfield, Miles Champion & Steve Clay present “Poems and Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946–1981) tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Center for Book Arts.
- Tomorrow: a release party for Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies at Printed Matter from 5–7.
- Also tomorrow night: Ferry Radax’s documentary Thomas Bernhard – Drei Tage shows at Anthology Film Archives at 7:15 p.m. Also shows on Friday at 9 p.m.
- Susan Howe & David Grubbs’s Thiefth is online at PennSound.
- Audio recordings from former slaves at the Library of Congress
- The Brooklyn Rail is having a reading in honor of Gilbert Sorrentino on Saturday, February the 20th with Walter Abish & David Markson, among others.
- Also at the Brooklyn Rail: John Yau’s “The Difference between Jerry Saltz’s America and Mine”, a good examination of arts in New York in the past decade.
“There are so many ways of earning a living, and most of them are failures.
Wrote Gertrude Stein.”
(David Markson, The Last Novel, p. 87)