More recently, footnotes have been employed to postmodern effect: Vladimir Nabokov and David Foster Wallace used them flamboyantly; writers such as Nicholson Baker applied them from a softer palette. 

From Nathan Heller's "Save Footnotes" in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/save-footnotes

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