Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
by Michael Chabon
Published for the first time: 4/28/2008
222 pages, Hardcover
Genres: Literary Criticism, Books About Books, Writing, Memoir, Nonfiction, Essays, Literature
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.
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