Portions of the introduction and chapter 2 originally appeared as “Encyclopedic Novels and the Cruft of Fiction: Infinite Jest’s Endnotes” in Studies in the Novel 44.3 (Fall 2012): 304–324.
Portions of chapter 1 originally appeared as “Crossed-up Disciplinarity: What Norbert Wiener, Thomas Pynchon, and William Gaddis Got Wrong about Literature and Entropy” in Contemporary Literature 56.1 (Spring 2015): 23–55.