Ah, okay.

Finding some of the defensiveness over the term serious literature a little confusing....when I say literature I am referring to important fiction, not technical journals or spreadsheets or whatever you're thinking...what circles do you work in that would rule a book out for having footnotes? Surely not ones that have been paying any attention at all to the literary world in the past 75 years. Do the names Pynchon, Delillo, Borges, David Foster Wallace, Gaddis, McCarthy, et al. mean anything at all to you?