Going Meta: Career as Postmodern Narrative

Postmodernists pay great attention to the form of a literary work, be it a short story, a play, a novel, a film, a TV series, a book of short stories, or even a series of novels. But what happens when a postmodern storyteller starts to look at his own career like it's a single, literary work? In this episode I walk through three accomplished postmodernists (John Barth, Robert Coover, Quentin Tarantino) and how each shaped his own career to create a meta-story arc.