Maps and Legends Maps and Legends

Maps and Legends

Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

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Publisher Description

The Pulitzer Prize winner explores the literary joys of sci-fi and superheroes, gumshoes and goblins, and the stories that bring us together.

“I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period.” Such is the manifesto of Michael Chabon, an author of indisputable literary renown who maintains a fierce appreciation of the seductive arts of so-called “genre” fiction.
 
In this lively collection of sixteen critical and personal essays, the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay champions the cause of westerns, horror, and all the stories, comics, and pulp fiction that get pushed aside when literary discussion turns serious. Whether he’s taking up Superman or Sherlock Holmes, Poe or Proust, Chabon makes it his emphatic mission to explore the reasons we tell one another tales.
 
Throughout, Chabon reveals his own blooming as a writer, from The Mysteries of Pittsburgh to The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. He is living proof of his theory that the stories that give us great pleasure are in many ways our truest, best art—the building blocks of our shared imagination—and in Maps and Legends, he “makes an inviting case for bridging the gap between popular and literary writing” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
 This ebook features a biography of the author.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
December 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
226
Pages
PUBLISHER
Open Road Media
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
5.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Lamborghini fanatic ,

Entertaining but preachy

A great book that covers a vast array of ideas and stories that influence our current culture. However, the author seems to fall in love with his own sophistication in areas, using language that shows off his vocabulary instead of focusing on the point he is trying to make. Couple that with some questionable references and stories, I can easily understand why some people would love this book and others would throw it in the trash can.

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