num_pages: 222
description: 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 around serious literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection.Cover art by Jordan Crane.
language: English
title: Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
publisher: McSweeney's