Can you name the Los Angles Times's 61 essential postmodern reads?

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  • Source: Jacket Copy, Los Angeles Times
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AuthorWorksYear
Kathy Acker1990
Donald Antrim1998
Margaret Atwood2000
Paul Auster1985/1986/1986
Nicholson Baker1988
J.G. Ballard1970
John Barth1966
Donald Barthelme1981
John Berger1972
Thomas Bernhard1991
Roberto BolaƱo2004
Jorge Luis Borges1962
William S. Burroughs1959
Robert Burton1621
Italo Calvino1979
Julio Cortazar1963
Robert Coover1968
Stanley Crawford1989
Mark Danielewski2000
Don Delillo1973
Philip K. Dick1962
AuthorWorksYear
E.L. Doctorow2000
Geoff Dyer1997
Umberto Eco2005
Dave Eggers2000
Steve Erickson1989
Percival Everett2009
William Faulkner1936
Jonathan Safran Foer2002
William Gaddis1975
William Gass1995
John Hawkes1961
Nathaniel Hawthorne1850
Aleksandar Hemon2008
Michael Herr1977
Shelley Jackson2003-?
Franz Kafka1915
Milan Kundera1979
Jonathan Lethem1999
Ben Marcus2002
David Markson1988
Tom McCarthy2005
AuthorWorksYear
Joseph McElroy1987
Steven Millhauser1972
Haruki Murakami1995
Vladimir Nabokov1962
Flann O'Brien1939
Tim O'Brien1990
Harvey Pekar1976-2008
Thomas Pynchon1973
Philip Roth1986
W.G. Sebald1999
William Shakespeare1599-1601?
Gilbert Sorrentino1979
Christopher Sorrentino2005
Art Spiegelman1986, 1991
Laurence Sterne1759-1767
Scarlett Thomas2004
Kurt Vonnegut1969
David Foster Wallace1996
Colson Whitehead2001
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61 Postmodern Reads Quiz

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  • Created Sep 30, 2009 in Literature
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