The cards with their borders cut-out in different placements and perforations along a vertical center line allow incorporation of new words from the card immediately underlying the cut-outs & perforations into the text above it. The sorting of the cards is random. The text is printed in red or black and the calligraphy has varied sizes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book is Illustrated by Bob Gale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Web Site: Lamore's novel, written mostly in a working class suburb of Paris, and the product of 6 years of intense and wildly eclectic research ranging from African geo-politics to ornithology (Lamore's father is an expert on rare birds) has been compared to Anthony Burgess's Clockwork Orange, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and Dante's Purgatory. Aside from a short excerpt published in FRANK's recent issue of Expat Writing, the work has been kept from public view. AKA by Jean Lamore is one of the most innovative and thought-provoking novels to emerge so far in the 21st century. Set in Paris, New York, and diverse parts of Africa, AKA is a rambunctious romp through almost everything we know about both life and language. Both upsetting and amusing at once in the best sense of both words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is Johnson's second novel. It recounts the life of Albert Angelo, a school teacher in several styles of writing and varied page layouts. The novel comprises five chapters, viz., prologue, exposition, development, disintegration, and coda. The prologue is mainly laid out like a drama. The first section of the chapter 2, exposition, is written in first person singular. The second section, that is written in second person singular, also includes some unusual punctuation marks. The third section is written in the third person singular, the fourth in first person plural, the fifth in second person plural, and the sixth in third person plural. Chapter 2, development, is mainly printed in two columns, the left sided tells the main story, the right sided has comments that are printed in Italics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cover and drawings were done by Joe Brainard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

An introduction to Walter Abish's latest book analyzes his first work "Alphabetical Africa" which is held by the Sackner Archive. In that book, the first chapter consists soley of words beginning with A and each chapter introduces a new letter of the alphabet until Z. Then a letter is removed from each chapter until the final one consisting again of all A words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page of this book consists of an illustrated short story. There were two predecessors, "20 Trial Briefs" (1981), and "All Cotton Briefs" (1985). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page of this book consists of an illustrated short story. One of the copies also is acompanied by a card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a front page review of "Le Train de Nulle Part" (The Train to Nowhere) by Michel Thaler, the non de plume of Michel Dansel. The novel is written without any verbs - heavy on exclamation points and dashes. It is of the same genre as George Perec's work without any e's. The review itself is written without verbs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the German translation of "Double or Nothing." The folded loose sheet depicts colored alphabet pasta. The text is typeset rather than photocopied from a typed manuscript as it is in the original American publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In each chapter, proceding from A to Z and returning to A, a letter is added alphabetically to the text and then subtracted from it. Therefore the first and last chapters have all words beginning with A, and the middle chapters use the complete alphabet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.