This is a general number in JEF's print annual, edited by Eckhard Gerdes and themed A Report from the Front Lines. The subtitle is the editorial stance. We treat experimental prose as dispatches from where the form is being tested, not as a settled genre to be sampled.

Gerdes founded the journal in 1986 alongside Depth Charge Press, and the bi-annual general issues are its backbone between the single-author Festschrift volumes built around Federman, Barth, and Jaffe. Each numbered issue is a snapshot of what the press considered foremost work in English at the time of printing.