• The spiritual cousin to Blue Self Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre-much of the book takes place during a transatlantic flight.
• For readers of Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard, The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter, and Hold Fast to Your Crown by Yannick Haenel.
• Features Mark's signature absurdism: serious, strange, weird, and humorous aIl at the same time. In contrast to Reinhardt's Garden, Saint Sebastian's Abyss is written in short, bite-sized snippets that gather momentum as they go.
• A book about obsession, belief, doubt, and the heart vs. the mind. Also about elitism and the gatekeepers of art, whether painting or literature.