Being a rampant bibliophile, I would love to collect the books that my favorite writers have owned and written in and embellished with marginalia. That, in itself, could prove to be a lifetime obsession, an all-consuming literary paper trail.
It’s pretty extraordinary then to read at Jacket Copy how devoted fans are reassembling the late David Markson’s library, full of hundreds of books that are inscribed with his illuminating marginalia.