Record ID:
384707
Accession number:
MA 8675.13
Credit:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.9 cm
Notes:
Part of a collection of letters from William Gaddis to David Markson. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 8675.1-15 for details.
Summary:
Explaining that he is in Wainscott and only gets mail "when someone stops in the NY apartment & notices it"; remarking that this "may be too late for [Markson's] Guggenheim application, where [he] may use [Gaddis's] name"; adding that he has "noted a greatly declining number [of fellowships] going to fiction writers compared to the old days, compared to film music & academic projects, all capped by what ... must be a greatly augmented number of applications because of threats to federal state &c funding for the 'arts.'"
Provenance:
Carter Burden.
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