The first in the “personal genre,” "Reader's Block", was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1996. It was followed by "This Is Not A Novel" (Counterpoint, 2001), "Vanishing Point" (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004) and "The Last Novel" (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007). Of "Reader's Block", fellow writer and friend Kurt Vonnegut wrote, "David shouldn’t thank Fate for letting him write such a good book in a time when large numbers of people could no longer be wowed by a novel, no matter how excellent."