By next Tuesday (E) or WEdnesday (F), you have to have acquired a copy of a creative, narrative work written by an American sometime since 1955 and you have to have begun reading it. The book does not have to be "postmodern", but since you do have to write a "postmodern" story, it might be helpful. Below is a brief list of some books that might be good to read:
Title, Author
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
Beloved (or anything else by), Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse Five (or anything else by), Kurt Vonnegut
The Breast (or anything else by), Philip Roth
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
The Dead Girl, Melanie Thernstrom
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Brief interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Either of Jonathan Safran Foer's novels
Maus and Maus II, by Art Spiegelman
Fun Home and You Are Not My Mother, by Alison Bechdel
etc.
I also recommend The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach- post-modern, and if you're a baseball fan, you'll especially love it, but even if you don't like baseball you'll enjoy this book.
ReplyDeleteOr, there's always the awesome A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin that there is a TV show of now on HBO called Game of Thrones.