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Gass is probably my favourite contemporary American writer. The man is brilliant. If you like his non-fiction, I'd highly recommend his fiction also. Starting with the disturbing and circumlocutory...

I hadn't thought about that. You are right there. Probably more so than a genuine difference in "ars poetica", it was the independently arising and increasing value of that second wave of feminist...

I don't doubt it. 'tis more so for me, enjoyment of the thought experiments I find later developments of Saussurean semiotics engender. They seem quite pleasurable. Or maybe that's masochism speaking.

I think certain PM theorists were more so attacking the idea that HUP and QM were probabilistic and therefore undermined the determinism of other Scientific Research and Theories. I don't agree with...

Artamene, Or Cyrus the Great, at a brief 2.1 million words. And then perhaps Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time at a mere 1.27 million.

Joseph McElroy's Women and Men is certainly the longest...

I'd suggest Plath, though embedded with that "confessionalism" also certainly opened up a new sort of poetic vision that reconciled a kind of domesticity with the surreal, and certainly seemed rife...

I've always been rather easily seduced by various developments on Saussure's semiotic theory. Derrida and Foucault and Barthes and Butler mostly. The relationship between sign-signifier-signified has...

Thankfully, I have you to do bring them to the general attention for me! :) I've only read the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia by those two. I quite like the experiment in 'nomad' thought...

I'd be loath to suggest that all postmodern writers never take themselves seriously. Irony may be a prominent part of postmodern literature of the "fictional" sort, but so is cynicism and the...

I might try to find a contemporary American poet or two, seeing as 5 of the 6 on your list have been dead for at least 35 years. I mean did he suggest you follow American trends 50-100 years old, or...

It's rather ironic that you state this rather monomaniacal concept, and then immediately progress into overwhelming obfuscations, periphrasis, and inane logical transgressions in order to defend...

I suppose Baudrillard has suggested that the digital stream of references and appearances and information outside context or any sort of consequence to the viewer would render the separation between...

Neo-Romantic. It's interesting to see that. There are those social movements like New Sincerity, and Post-irony, that are of similar stuff. A sincerity that doesn't despair fragmentation, an irony...

Agreed. Which is why Postmodernism borrows so heavily from Sassurean Semiotic analysis. It was quite influenced by the relationship between sign, signifier, signified and how this related to the...

I don't think it has erased these things either. I don't think that was ever the idea of postmodernism. I think the idea is that modernist narratives aspired to universality and this eventually...

Jump right in Morpheus. The more the merrier. :)

I think Miyako is trying to suggest that basically all technological development, and scientific progress finds its roots in Modernism and its many...

I think I'm agreeing with you to a point. Yes these things are the end-product of modernist principles, but those same principles create this postmodern societal condition, where things have lost...

The point isn't that laptops and cellphones and other such technology are postmodern... it's that these things and the "technology-driven" society that creates them, have exteriorized knowledge, made...

To follow 2014's theme of reading female authors... I might suggest:

Pirate Talk or Mermalade ~ Terese Svoboda

(I'd suggest Oksana Zabuzhko's Museum of Abandoned Secrets, yet it might just be...

The grand thing about being Canadian is that we have really no Canadian men's soccer team worth speaking of, so we get to jump on the bandwagon of whatever team we like. However, I've always like...

I read this recently, and found it was quite poor also. I like Margaret Atwood, her interviews are always quite good, but her writing has taken a serious nosedive since The Blind Assassin. This Oryx...

It's interesting to see the prevalence of that bitter cynicism, fierce irony, and instability of meaning/meaninglessness particular to Postmodernism in the literature of Eastern Europe especially...

For African literature by females there are a few I'd highly recommend.

So Vast the Prison ~ Assia Djebar
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade ~ Assia Djebar
Our Sister Killjoy ~ Ama Ata Aidoo...

You might try out Sisters by Brigitte Lozerec'h. It's wrapped up in avant-garde world of early Twentieth Century Paris, though it is not really a thriller. Quite a brilliant book though.

The Tunnel ~ William H. Gass
Parallel Stories ~ Peter Nádas
The Melancholy of Resistance ~ László Krasznahorkai
The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffmann ~ Angela Carter
Gravity's Rainbow ~...