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David Markson is the author of five novels, including Springer's Progress, Wittgenstein's Mistress, and Reader's Block. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Salon Book Award. He lives in New York City.
Jester cousin to Pound's Cantos--notations that gradually cohere in an underlying progress, a drift toward the momentary reconciliation of art, intellect, and mortality. This is a novel of a thousand voices at their most concise, outrageous and most telling, indefatigably conceived and executed with a learned sparkle. It stands out as a daring tour de force (yet again), just the kind of novel only Markson would take on and do with such uncompromising elan. -- Paul West A cultural history of the Western world cast as a bricolage of decontextualized anecdotes, quotations, and facts . . . A lifetime's reading boiled down to sentences that have the terse clarity of epitaphs. -- James Gibbons
