Ouch.

'Not until a year after his burial at Sag Harbor did someone notice that the title of The Recognitions was misspelled on the back of William Gaddis's headstone.'

- David Markson, The Last Novel

The books they carried

Complete manifest of reading matter taken on recent 9-day 'field' exercise:

War - Sebastian Junger
Negotiating with the Dead: a writer on writing - Margaret Atwood
Walking to Hollywood - Will Self
The Last Novel - David Markson

When I want an automated book-dealer to do my thinking for me...

Tipped off by an interesting reference [in Zona] to David Markson's This Is Not a Novel, I went to Amazon and typed in 'Markson not a novel'.

Directing me, admittedly, straight away to the desired product, the Amazon sales-gnome rather grudgingly added:

Did you mean: maroon not a novel*

Try it. Just see what bloody happens.
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* no question mark, either, you notice. Patronising spacktards.