2002
Sukenick responds to Fleisher's feminist critique of "Narralogues" in the voice of his own fictional jeune-fille, Jane.
Reflections on Creative Writing as potentially part of the tradition of the avant garde.
Sandy Huss suggests that the reform envisioned by Amato and Fleisher is already underway.
Joe Amato and Kass Fleisher suggest that creative writing pedagogy, particularly as found in the typical workshop, might benefit from a major, theoretically-informed, re-visioning. Introduced by ebr managing editor (1999-2002), Kirsten Young.
Brandon Barr considers Loss Glazier's attempt at a hypertext poetics that moves beyond the link.
Linda Carolli on the third hybrid collection by Michael Joyce, a work (like the technological landscape it's about) at once industrial and informatic, essayistic and narrative, technical and autobiographical.
Polymythic Personalistic Organicism, Biocentric Egalitarianism, and the Postmodern Return to Religion.
Setting one scholar's legalistic solutions against texts by cyber-critics and posts by netizens and web artists, geniwate looks at the issue of copyright law online.
Steffen Hantke reviews the reviewers of Don DeLillo's Body Artist, dispelling the notion that, after Underworld, the shorter book is necessarily a slighter one.
Christine Bucher, reviewing Beatriz Columnina, considers the narrative and photographic dimensions of interiors designed by Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier.
Adrien Gargett on Pierre Missac's unification of empirical biography and textual production, and the development of a "criticism of indirection" too often missing from Benjamin studies.
Dave Ciccoricco returns to Michael Joyce's 1997 novel so as to avoid bringing hypertext criticism to a premature closure.
Entering the cyberdebates, Scott Rettberg moves beyond technique and proposes a more generative approach to hypertext, in which an author's intention and poetic purpose have a role.
A revaluation and appreciation of Stanley Elkin on the occasion of the Dalkey Archive reprinting of four separate volumes.
2001
Matt Kirschenbaum, a longtime ebr contributor who actually does some programming and much reading in electronic environments, sought to ground the discussion.
Daniel Wenk was living in Paris on a Fellowship during the initial discussions. He would eventually give the discussions their name, End Construction!, after treating a street sign in Chicago. Using black electrical tape the same width as the sign lettering, he formed an exclamation mark and so turned the statement into a command.
Eugene Thacker, who went on to help design the Alt-X e-book series, suggested some models for ebr designers to consider.
William S. Wilson, author of the story collection, Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka, audited the discussions on the new ebr Interface and posted a series of letters (backchannel), under the header, Why I Don't End Construction. His reasons have to do with audience building.
In response to Bill Wilson's provocation (about not "getting through" to a younger audience), Linda Brigham introduces a cognitive perspective and closes with a metaphor from music - eventually the design-governing metaphor for the site design.