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Maps and legends : reading and writing along the borderlands

Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: San Francisco [Calif.] : McSweeney's Books, ©2008.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary: A series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection.
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Named Person: Michael Chabon
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Chabon
ISBN: 9781932416893 1932416897
OCLC Number: 176924865
Description: 222 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Trickster in a suit of lights: thoughts on the modern short story -- Maps and legends -- Fan fictions: on Sherlock Holmes -- Ragnarok boy -- On daemons & dust -- Kids' stuff -- Killer hook: Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! -- Dark adventure: on Cormac McCarthy's The road -- The Other James -- Landsman of the lost -- Thoughts on the death of Will Eisner -- My back pages -- Diving into the wreck -- Recipe for life -- Imaginary homelands -- Golems I have known, or, Why my elder son's middle name is Napoleon.
Responsibility: Michael Chabon.

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A series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection.

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