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The footnote as literary device

Apr 4·0m·1 message

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Been thinking about how footnotes have migrated from academic writing into creative work—Junot Díaz, Jennifer Egan, even some poets now. Are we embracing a more fragmented way of thinking on the page, or just showing off?

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