Awl pal Seth Colter Walls took a trip to The Strand in search of David Markson's personal library, and walked away with a sense of guilt and loss about the archive's dispersal. He also walked away with a couple of pretty well annotated books, so it wasn't a total disappointment.
"my copy of white noise apparently used to belong to david markson (who i had to look up). he wrote some notes in the margin: a check mark by some passages, ‘no' by other, ‘bullshit' or ‘ugh get to the point' by others. i wanted to call him up and tell him his notes are funny, but then i realized he DIED A MONTH AGO. bummer." -Hurry down to the Strand if you want to pick up what's left of David Markson's heavily annotated personal library.
June 2010 David Markson died in.
It would be fitting if his gravestone had "Wittgenstein" misspelled on it. As he suggested The Recognitions was misspelled on Gaddis'.
As soon as it was established that I had an enormous, blush-inducing crush on David, he promptly pulled a salacious book from the sexuality section, written by an old Playboy Bunny, in which she describes not only how cool and smart David was, but how impressive a lover. Said Theresa, five decades his junior.
