| Authors: |
Chabon, Michael.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Reader-response criticism.
Authorship.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
San Francisco, Calif. : McSweeney's Books, c2008. |
| Description: |
222 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781932416893 1932416897 |
| Contents: |
Trickster in a suit of lights: thoughts on the modern short story -- Maps and legends -- Fan fictions: on Sherlock Holmes -- Ragnarok boy -- On daemons & dust -- Kids' stuff -- Killer hook: Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! -- Dark adventure: on Cormac McCarthy's The road -- The Other James -- Landsman of the lost -- Thoughts on the death of Will Eisner -- My back pages -- Diving into the wreck -- Recipe for life -- Imaginary homelands -- Golems I have known, or, Why my elder son's middle name is Napoleon. |
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| 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. |