Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
Author: Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon’s sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in sixteen parts – 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 aroun….Read More
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