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Maps and legends : reading and writing along the borderlands / Michael Chabon.

by Chabon, Michael.

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McSweeney's Books, c2008.

Reader-response criticism.

Literature -- Appreciation.

Books and reading.

Alternate title:

Reading and writing along the borderlands.

222 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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 -- The recipe for life -- Imaginary homelands -- Golems I have known, or, Why my elder son's middle name is Napoleon.

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.

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