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The term "Post-Modernism" turns up again and again in these essays and interviews, and it comes as a surprise to find it applied a quarter-century ago, not to metareferences in knowing television serials but to the work of Barthelme and his coevals John Barth, John Hawkes, Robert Coover, William Gass, etc.
(For examples, see the effective but very different techniques employed by Nicholson Baker in his novel The Mezzanine , and by David Foster Wallace in the novel Infinite Jest and in the essays collected in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again .) On the other hand, the footnote as scholarly reference tool or scholarly reference weapon has never enjoyed more prominence than it does today--"each serious work of history," Grafton notes, "must now travel on an impregnably armored bottom, rather like a tank."
The "Templeton Laws of Life Essay Contest" awards $2,000 to adolescents who write essays about spirituality.
In "Smut Cut," the reviews section, you will find pieces like Shalit's; "Roles" features essays on sex, gender, and relationships; "Pedantry" presents pieces by public figures such as former Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders on favorite subjects (take a guess); "Ex Libris" comprises "favorite erotic passages from our writers' libraries"; "Skin" is photos of flesh; "Threads" is occasionally interactive erotic fiction; and "The Bar" is a yet-to-be-launched chat area.
As the Italian chemist Primo Levi dramatically was reminded when a flask blew up in which he was trying to refine benzene under wartime-scarcity conditions, one of several remarkable escapes from death recounted in his collection of autobiographical essays published as The Periodic Table (Schocken, New York: 1984).
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