Biblioracle: John Barth dies at 93 — his books pulled stories apart

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Biblioracle: John Barth dies at 93 — his books pulled stories apart

Spring of 1991, my junior year of college at the University of Illinois, I signed up for a course titled “Postmodern Literature.” Even though I was an English major I did not know what sort of literature this might be. All I knew was that the course fit a requirement and met at a time later than 11 a.m., when the odds were decent that I would be awake. The first book we read was a collection of short stories titled “Lost in the Funhouse” by John…