Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gilbert Sorrentino (1929–2006) was an experimental writer and poet who wrote 19 novels, 10 collections of poetry, a book of essays, a collection of stories, and a novella. He is particularly known for his use of formal constraints and metafictional conceits. Sorrentino was born in Brooklyn on April 7, 1929, and went to public schools there. Although he had two stints at Brooklyn College in the 1950s, he never completed his degree, and is usually considered an autodidact. He served in the Medical Corps of the US Army, and, upon leaving in 1953, decided to become a writer. Sorrentino's first marriage to Elsene Wiessner ended in 1960 after a cross-country road trip, which he fictionalized in The Sky Changes (1966). They had two children, Jesse and Delia. Sorrentino subsequently married Victoria Ortiz and had another child, the novelist Christopher Sorrentino. Sorrentino achieved some early renown as a poet with links to Robert Creeley and the Black Mountain school. He founded the journal Neon with Hugh Selby, Jr. and others and served as its editor until 1960. During this period, William Carlos Williams included a small piece of Sorrentino's writing in Book Five of the long poem Paterson (1958). He then edited the journal Kulchur in the early 1960s and worked as an editor at Grove Press under Barney Rossett through the end of the 1960s. Sorrentino also had a long friendship with John O'Brien, and encouraged him to create the Review of Contemporary Fiction and Dalkey Archive Press.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.059 | 0.023 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".