Maps and legends reading and writing along the borderlands

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"...

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Main Author: Chabon, Michael
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco [Calif.] : McSweeney's Books, ©2008.
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505 0 0 |t Trickster in a suit of lights: thoughts on the modern short story --  |t Maps and legends --  |t Fan fictions: on Sherlock Holmes --  |t Ragnarok boy --  |t On daemons & dust --  |t Kids' stuff --  |t Killer hook: Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! --  |t Dark adventure: on Cormac McCarthy's The road --  |t The Other James --  |t Landsman of the lost --  |t Thoughts on the death of Will Eisner --  |t My back pages --  |t Diving into the wreck --  |t Recipe for life --  |t Imaginary homelands --  |t Golems I have known, or, Why my elder son's middle name is Napoleon. 
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