Michael Joyce recently published Twilight:
A Symphony (Eastgate Systems), a hypertext that is a lyrical,
haunting, present-minded, and compassionate cascade of words, constantly
moving and falling back in fresh, artful currents. This description,
however, suits most of his writing. Simply put, Joyce is one the
most imaginative artists of his time.
Joyce’s first hyper-novel, afternoon:
a story (Eastgate Systems), was called "the
granddaddy of hypertext fictions" (New York Times) and
an "arresting, intricate, delicately contoured prose sculpture"
(Washington Post). His widely reviewed first novel, The
War Outside Ireland (1982) won the Great Lakes New Writers Award
in fiction. Joyce’s innovative work in theory and criticism includes
Of Two
Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics (University of Michigan
Press). He is a professor of English at Vassar College.
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