Postmodern Reads From Around the World

The Los Angeles Times books blog, Jacket Copy, offers up a fun annotated collection of 61 essential postmodern reads—and, with authors hailing from Japan, Bosnia, Chile, Italy and beyond, it’s a globally flavored list. Turns out that extraordinarily long (or extraordinarily short) books that—among other listed qualities—play with form, comment on their own bookishness and blur reality and fiction know no borders. (Via Kottke)

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