Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

Resumen del libro

Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 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 around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection. His own fiction, meanwhile, is explored from the perspective of personal history: post-collegiate desperation sparks his debut, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh;" procrastination and doubt reveal the way toward "Wonder Boys;" a love of comics and a basement golem combine to create the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier x{0026} Clay;" and an enigmatic Yiddish phrasebook unfurls into "The Yiddish Policeman's Union."