Maps and legends
Subtitle: reading and writing along the borderlands
By: Michael Chabon.
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781932416893
Subjects: Reader-response criticism; Authorship
Description: 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.