{"id":24519,"date":"2014-06-28T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=24519"},"modified":"2017-04-16T06:09:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T13:09:02","slug":"laura-sims-ann-beattie-discussed-david-markson-markson-gaddis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2014\/06\/28\/laura-sims-ann-beattie-discussed-david-markson-markson-gaddis\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Sims & Ann Beattie discussed David Markson + Markson & Gaddis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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    \"Markson_Novel\"
    \nImage from 5cense.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Beattie was asked about her falling in love Wittgenstein\u2019s Mistress, and she responded:
    \n \u201cI think more than just falling in love with it, or whatever, though\u2014and I don\u2019t mean to say this kept me removed from the book\u2014but there was a kind of writerly awe that anybody would dare to be so uncompromising.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    ( In fact, she was one of the first people to read Wittgenstein\u2019s Mistress before it was published, as it was being rejected left and right.)<\/p>\n

    Laura Sims <\/a> and Ann Beattie <\/a>discussed David Markson at Strand<\/a> (youtube) <\/p>\n

    via<\/a><\/p>\n

    Fare Forward <\/a><\/p>\n

    In this first-ever book of letters by novelist David Markson\u2014a quintessential \u201cwriter\u2019s writer\u201d whose work David Foster Wallace once lauded as \u201cpretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country\u201d\u2014readers will experience Markson at his wittiest and warmest. Poet Laura Sims shares her correspondence with him<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Letters from David Markson<\/a> <\/p>\n

    \"1aGaddisDM\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Gaddis & Markson <\/a><\/p>\n

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    William Gaddis \"\"<\/a> painted 1987 by Julian Schnabel <\/p>\n

    On page 107 Vanishing Point by David Markson <\/p>\n

    Tardily realizing–qualms after all.
    \nAuthor would undeniably be distressed at the loss of
    \nSchnabel’s portrait of Willim Gaddis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Markson also wrote on the same page,<\/p>\n

    Georg Trakl was a pharmacist.
    \nE.T. A Hoffman was a lawyer.
    \nKate Smith could not read music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    On page 106 Vanishing Point..<\/p>\n

    E.E.Cummings died after chopping firewood<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    Ann Beattie – author of Chilly Scenes of Winter<\/a> (youtube) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Image from 5cense.com Beattie was asked about her falling in love Wittgenstein\u2019s Mistress, and she responded: \u201cI think more than just falling in love with it, or whatever, though\u2014and I don\u2019t mean to say this kept me removed from the book\u2014but there was a kind of writerly awe that anybody would dare to be so … <\/p>\n

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