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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

by Michael Chabon

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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.… (more)

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801.95Literature › modified standard subdivisions › Philosophy and theory › Nature and character › Literary theory and criticism

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PN98.R38Language and Literature › Literature (General) › Literature (General) › Criticism

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