Designed in some small part to defuse Albert Goldman's ugly, contemptuous — but often insightful — biography of the King, Guralnick worked through the details of Elvis's life with more studious patience than Leon Edel devoted to Henry James's (Guralnick's long endnote arguing through who actually worked the lathe on Elvis's first recording, Sam Phillips or his assistant, is a stunner).
For one thing, it is more than 800 pages long and has 971 endnotes.
Preoccupied with the encounter of writers and intellectuals with the Holocaust, Bartov bombards the reader with ideas and issues as well as with commentary on literature and film in four long essays packed with endnotes and bibliographical references.
"Because some of the endnotes are pages-long digressions, if we had them read in line with the main narrative, we would have run the risk of making the already complex story unfollowable for listeners".
Its text is six hundred and fifty pages long, with another hundred and fifteen pages of endnotes that can be read straight through like a cubistic condensation of the book.
Mr Wallis cuts through calcified myths with forensic scholarship (the endnotes are 80 pages long), recovering for posterity a saga that might otherwise have been lost.The founder of the 101 was Colonel G.W. Miller, a confederate soldier from Kentucky who parlayed ambition, risk-taking and courage into a cattle empire.
Just how tall a task Shenk took on is evident in his voluminous endnotes, which go on as long as the main text and are just as interesting.
It's a fitting endnote for Fischli/Weiss, whose deadpan art has long played in the negative spaces of everyday life.
Without footnotes and with the skimpiest of endnotes, and with dreadful imagined dialogue that makes one long for Kathy the Nymphomaniac, this new "Jesse Livermore" is useless to anyone genuinely interested in the rich history of Wall Street.
Without complaint, without a scold, without any judging, my mother worked all night long typing the 64-page opus and 12 more pages of endnotes and citations on an IBM Selectric typewriter.
