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Yes, that Thomas Pynchon. He and DeLillo are worth reading for postmodernists, although William S Burroughs is the godfather of it all.
IMHO "The Crying of Lot 49" is the way to read Pynchon; all the major ideas come out in their raw form and you can extrapolate from there.
It is his "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."