ABSTRACT
The fusion in genre distinction appears to have been an integral part of postmodernism's self-consciousness. A compatible commentary occurs in Brian McHale's segments about poetry that he considers postmodern. More than just a random list, Larry McCaffery presents a roll call of authors of the filaments of the work that helped to create the postmodern. Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow is first published, the novel that becomes the apex of successful postmodern fiction, a work that has recently come to a kind of completion with Michael Chabon's 2016 memoir, Moonglow. There is no easy way to travel from 1973, one of the early hearts of postmodernism to the rage for memoir that has been cultivated in market. Written with all the technical experimentation that might be expected in any postmodern novel, Dave Eggers' writing—carefully looped into digressive flashbacks, interior scenes, and direct authorial commentary—won him a spot as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction.
