Kurt Vonnegut is a poster child for postmodernism.One of the big names of the 1960s and '70s, he's remembered as a major satirist and voice of U.S. counterculture—and his works are perfect go-to...

Our guy Borges was one of the earliest writers to embrace what we now know as postmodern techniques. But get this: Borges never wrote a single novel—he was all about the short story format (plus...

Looking for a guy who represents the shift from modernism to postmodernism?You've found him in Samuel Beckett. He may have been a pal of James Joyce (who was one of modernism's head honchos), but f...

Nabokov is a tough nut to crack, and people love to argue about whether he's a modernist or postmodernist. Makes sense, we guess, since there's a definite continuity between the two—and Nabokov m...

The first rule of Chuck Palahniuk: don't talk about Chuck Palahniuk.Okay, if you haven't read (or seen) Fight Club, you have no clue what we're talking about. When he wrote Fight Club, he'd already...