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Reader's Block was an awesome book. Some years ago I also found some of Markson's earlier "entertainments," as he calls them, which are pretty hilarious short pulp fiction pieces.

His last couple books looked basically like rehashes of Reader's Block, so I didn't bother. I think he might've run out of ideas there.

True, but rehashes of Reader's Block are better than rehashes of The Davinci Code, say. Markson is one of the few writers who gets a pass from me.

And they're releasing reissues of a ton of Markson's early pulp stuff--there are some westerns by him coming out in the summer that I'm really excited for--so that's going to be fun. It's just unfortunate that they'll be better reviewed than Reader's Block was when it was released.