Robert Coover taught a hypertext-writing workshop that taught him that allowing students to get to a computer furthered the end of books. This essay appeared in the New York Times Book Review in 1992. Since its appearance, Coover has decided that the Golden age of “literary hypertext has ended, and that this heavily textual era of innovation in the form has given way to the world of the Web.” I though it was intriguing when Coover mentioned that print documents can be read in hyperspace, but that hypertext documents do not translate into print. Basically, work that is done in hypertext must be read in hyperspace.
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