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Maps and legends : reading and writing along the borderlands /

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 "ser...

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Main Author:	Chabon, Michael
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	San Francisco, Calif. : McSweeney's Books, [2008]
Subjects:	Reader-response criticism. Authorship.

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