Part 1 List – Post-War American Fiction – Tara Fickle – Mark McGurl – 4/28/09 Primary Faulkner, William. Go Down, Moses. New York: Random House, 1942. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952. Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Vintage crime/Black Lizard. New York: Vintage Books, 1953. Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. New York: Viking Press, 1958. Mailer, Norman. Advertisements for Myself. New York: Putnam, 1959. (Selections) O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1952. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Pale Fire; A Novel. New York: Putnam, 1962. Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner. New York: Random House, 1967. Reed, Ishmael. Mumbo Jumbo. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972. Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. New York: Modern Library, 1972. Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime. New York: Random House, 1975. Oates, Joyce Carol. Them. New York, NY: Fawcett Crest, 1977. Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York: Knopf, 1977. Dick, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. Barthelme, Donald. Sixty Stories. New York: Putnam, 1981. (Selections) David B. Epileptic. Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine: A Novel. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984. Gibson, William. Neuromancer. New York: Ace Books, 1984. Auster, Paul. City of Glass. 1985 DeLillo, Don. White Noise. New York, NY: Viking, 1985. McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Saunders, George. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. New York: Random House, 1996. Roth, Philip. The Human Stain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Mazzucchelli, David. Asterios Polyp. Wallace, David Foster. Oblivion. New York: Little, Brown, 2004. (Selections) Karasik, Paul, David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster, and Paul Karasik. City of Glass. New York: Picador/Henry Holt, 2004. Cunningham, Michael. Specimen Days. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005. Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Díaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. Criticism McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction. New York: Methuen, 1987. (Selections) Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1988. (Selections) Hooks, Bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1992. Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993. Harper, Phillip Brian. Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. (Selections) Luhmann, Niklas. Observations on Modernity. Writing science. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Anderson, Perry. The Origins of Postmodernity. London: Verso, 1998. Michaels, Walter Benn. The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, 2004. McGurl, Mark. The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2009. .