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Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale.
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The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth Barth himself has described this novel as his entry into the postmodern form, explaining, “Looking back, I am inclined to declare grandly that I needed to discover, or to be discovered by, Postmodernism.” Indeed, the novel both parodies and rewrites the facts, histories and literary forms that concern it, starting Barth off on a long career of influential postmodern works.
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Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson The postmodern giant’s seminal work is a dizzying, disturbing book either about a woman who has gone mad, or about a woman who is the last woman on earth, or both. A stream of consciousness winding around boulders of myth and theory, this book is kind of unclassifiable. Plus, as Wallace famously raved, “[the fact] that a novel this abstract and erudite and avant-garde that could also be so moving makes Wittgenstein’s Mistress pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country.”
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Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges One of the forefathers of the postmodern tradition, David Foster Wallace himself referred to the writer as “the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature.” Labyrinths is aptly named — each story or essay is a maze of sorts, whether parabolic, linguistic, or full of thematic riddles. A great primer on the works of Borges, this collection is an essential on any postmodern shelf.
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Sixty Stories, Donald Barthelme As Anatole Broyard wrote in The New York Times, “Donald Barthelme may have influenced the short story in his time as much as Hemingway or O’Hara did in theirs. They loosened the story’s grip on the security of plot, but he broke it altogether and forced the form to live dangerously. O’Hara played with the brand names of our things, and Donald Barthelme plays with the brand names of our ideas. While Hemingway and O’Hara worked with specific feelings, he works with the structure of our emotional makeup.” Indeed, Barthelme’s work is rife with allusions, intertextuality, and a supreme disregard for the traditional (at the time, at least) form of the short story — stories may be just a few words, or several pages without a punctuation mark, or an accumulation of details that make the reader search for the plot themselves. They are mostly, however, amazing.
The Recognitions, William Gaddis Organized like a triptych, this book, whose many shifting scenes and characters are concerned with fallacy, mistaken identity, and forgeries — an extreme of the Holden Caulfield syndrome, as it were. Characters lose their names and gain others, dialogue may float unattributed, allusions abound. Gaddis famously said, ”I do ask something of the reader and many reviewers say I ask too much… and as I say, it’s not reader-friendly. Though I think it is, and I think the reader gets satisfaction out of participating in, collaborating, if you will, with the writer, so that it ends up being between the reader and the page.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-The-Pooh, Dutton Children’s Books, 1926. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard
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Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Knopf, 1970. Illustrated by Donald Chaffin
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Gertrude Stein, The World Is Round, William R. Scott Inc., 1939. Illustrated by Clement Hurd
Langston Hughes, The First Book of Jazz, F. Watts, 1955. Illustrated by Cliff Roberts
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106 beautiful illustrated books every child should experience.
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A vacant lot, rat-infested and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant her precious bean seeds.
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100 delicious fiction books for kids who read chapters.
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Sara Fanelli Chien Chien ISBN 2020350432
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Marc Boutavant One of my favourite books, It's beautiful from start to finish. ISBN 9782840 063285
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Rica Takada Un coin de Soleil - ISBN 978 4860 200 343
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon Reimagined by Katherine Paterson,Illustrated by Pamela Dalton
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NYT 2011 Best Illustrated Children’s Books
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100 years of illustration and design, a beautiful website by Pail Giambarba.
Pre-1923 Utopias and Science Fiction by Women A Reading List of Online Editions
Needlework inspirations from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In the Wilds, a book about rural childhood.
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I couldn't educate at home without my trusty Foxfire collection.
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Traditional Romanian embroidery stitches and styles.
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Discovery: A book about America by Joseph Brodsky.
William Blake's illustrated Songs of Innocence and Experience. #books
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A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard.
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Water Paper Paint: Exploring Creativity with Watercolor and Mixed Media [Paperback]
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Linda Armstrong Books to keep in physical form when others have been given away