mythologyofblue: 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. [the number is 54] David Foster Wallace later called it “pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country.” (Vanishing Point is also incredible.)

mythologyofblue:

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.

[the number is 54]

David Foster Wallace later called it “pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country.” (Vanishing Point is also incredible.)

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