Front Cover of Postmodern American Fiction
Many hypertext scholars were surprised to see Joyce's afternoon, a story, along with J Yellowlees Douglas' "I Have Said Nothing," published by W.W. Norton & Co. in its Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology. Joyce himself called it "ironic" (Grigar 4 May 2016). Kirschenbaum emphasizes this oddity by italicizing the word "print" when talking about this edition ("Editing the Interface" 28). Almost as odd is an excerpt of this hypertext novel for the Web that offered a mere 25 of the original 528 nodes, an approach that Joyce resisted (Joyce 2022).
In any case, W. W. Norton & Co. published both a Web in 1997 and print edition of the novel in 1998, constituting the 10th and 11th Editions of the work, respectively.