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A List? How PoMo...

 

 

08.10.09

A List? How PoMo...

How postmodern is Diesel anyway? The following is an excerpt from Jacket Copy's "61 Essential Postmodern Reads: An Annotated List" and the titles can all be found on our shelves, many on our Staff Recommends display:

 

pomo reads legend

 

Paul Auster's New York Trilogy

Roberto Bolaño's "2666"

William S. Burroughs' "Naked Lunch"

Italo Calvino's "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler"

Mark Danielewski's "House of Leaves"

Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle"

Aleksandar Hemon's "The Lazarus Project"

Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis"

Jonathan Lethem's "Motherless Brooklyn"

Haruki Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"

Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"

William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five"

 

-- From Jacket Copy, July 16, 2009. Read the full article here.

 

 

 

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