Dear Mr. Beckett: Letters from the Publisher

Preface by Paul Auster • Foreword by Edward Beckett Edited by Lois Oppenheim • Curated by Astrid Myers Rosset “You know, Barney, I think my writing days are over ” Beckett writes in 1954 âwhen most of his output was still ahead of him.ã And later, “Sick of all this old vomit and despair more and more of ever being able to puke again. In a world where writers switch publishers at the first shake of a martini pitcher, our trans-Atlantic communications seemed to float on a sea of tranquility and tr