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Erasing.org (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Melville: There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath ... [ CONTINUE READING » ] tags: Melville , Moby–Dick , Stephen Crane , David Markson
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Long before David Markson became critics’ favorite underrated writer of experimental fiction, he was a pulp novelist. This newly reissued 1966 Western is an outrageously ribald take on the genre (marred, unfortunately, by a subpar Frank Sinatra film that was later made of it). A sample sentence: “‘Nice to have you back, you double-dealing, women-and-children-terrifying dishonorable skunk,’...