"The Avant-Garde Ex Post Facto" by Caryn James from The New York Times, April 9, 1988. James discusses Brown University's conference "Unspeakable Practices: A Three-Day Celebration of Iconoclastic American Fiction" attended by William Gaddis, Stanley Elkin, Donald Barthelme, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, John Hawkes, and more.