This channel so far has focused a lot on novels and other major works of fiction. But we must not ignore the short form, which has been a fecund source of expert and innovative postmodern fiction. In this episode I go through eight iconic and seminal collections of short postmodern fiction. Works include Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth, Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover, The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (and also Girl with Curious Hair) by David Foster Wallace, 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme, and Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray.

In this episode I offer the suggestion that there can exist a "degree" of postmodernism in a work of fiction, with some works being more postmodern than others. I illustrate with four examples" A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waigh Proprietor by Robert Coover, If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino, and Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

In this episode I describe the postmodern narrative structure called the Garden of Forking Paths and give examples from Jorge Luis Borges, John Fowles, Mark Danielewski, Robert Coover, Alan Lightman, Steven Milhauser, Thomas Pynchon, and film.