Ben Marcus reads “Certain Things Last”
Probably written during the early 1920s, but not published during Anderson’s lifetime.
“For a year now I have been thinking of writing a certain book. ‘Well, tomorrow I’ll get at it,’ I’ve been saying to myself. Every night when I get into bed I think about the book. The people that are to be put between its covers dance before my eyes.”
Commentary by Ben Marcus on “Certain Things Last”:
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Ben Marcus is the author of five novels, most recently The Flame Alphabet. His stories, essays, and reviews in numerous publications. In 2008 he received the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Whiting Writers Award. Since 2000 he has been on the faculty at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
“Certain Things Last” is used by arrangement with The Newberry Library.
