Maps and legends : reading and writing along the borderlands
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Maps and legends : reading and writing along the borderlands
Harper Perennial, 2009
1st Harper Perennial ed
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Maps & legends : reading and writing along the borderlands
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Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more
Includes index
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
