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1. The Unfortunates

   The Unfortunates is an experimental "book in a box" published in 1969 by English author B. S. Johnson and reissued in 2008 by New Directions. The 27 sections are unbound, with a first and last chapter specified. The 25 sections in-between, ranging from a single paragraph to 12 pages in length, are designed to be read in any order.

   (Wikipedia entry on The Unfortunates)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 03.07.2013 - 15:09

2. The Babysitter

   “The Babysitter,” published in Pricksongs and Descants (1969), is a classic of postmodern fiction. The story consists of over one hundred fragments – paragraphs set off from each other by space breaks, that take us through multiple and divergent sequences of what might have or what could have occurred during the course of one evening between a babysitter, a baby, her boyfriend, and the mother and father of the house. Although chronological progression takes place in the story, as we move from 7:40 pm into the late hours of the night, the distinction between objective reality and fantasy falls away as we read the fragments, and every possibility has equal opportunity to be visited. “The Babysitter” is one of the best examples in print of the idea of multilinearity that digital hypertext seemed poised to exploit, a story that is not one progression of events, but many possible progressions of events branching from the same tree.

   (Source: Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg)
    

   Scott Rettberg - 17.08.2013 - 16:47

3. PFR-3 Poems

   In 1969 he [Jackson Mac Low] participated in the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: with the aid of a programmable film reader he composed the “PFR-3 Poems.” This interest has only strengthened in the last decade.) Indeed, 42 Merzgedichte In Memoriam Kurt Schwitters (1994) is a series of poems … recombined and transformed by computer programs. (Campbell 1998)

   (Source: http://glia.ca/conu/digitalPoetics/prehistoric-blog/2008/08/26/1969-jack...

   Alvaro Seica - 08.05.2015 - 17:52

4. Pricksongs and Descants

   Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author”already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel”as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover’s now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. Pricksongs & Descants is a cornerstone of Robert Coover’s remarkable oeuvre and a brilliant work by a major American writer.

   (Grove Atlantic catalog copy for 2000 edition)

   Scott Rettberg - 02.10.2018 - 15:57

5. Sentence

   "Sentence" is an entire 2,000 word story told in the form of one sentence.

   It was first published in the Jan. 18, 1969 issue of The New Yorker and subsequently in the collection City Life.

   Scott Rettberg - 02.10.2018 - 19:14

6. La Disparition

   La Disparition

   Ana Castello - 02.10.2018 - 21:11

7. The Death of the Novel and Other Stories

   Originally published in 1969, The Death of the Novel and Other Stories remains among the most memorable creations of an unforgettable age. Irrepressibly experimental in both content and form, these anti-fictions set out to rescue experience from its containment within artistic convention and bourgeois morality. Equal parts high modernist aesthete and borscht belt comedian, Sukenick joins avant-garde art with street slang and cartoons, expressing his generation's anxieties by simultaneously mocking and validating them. These are original works by a writer who will try absolutely anything.

   (Source: GoodReads description)

   Yvanne Michéle Louise Kerignard - 24.09.2019 - 15:24