Bookends : collected intros and outros /
In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature, age-old classics as well as his own, that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading. Chabon...
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First Harper Perennial paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Meta-introduction
- Intros. The Wes Anderson collection, Matt Zoller Seitz ; Trickster makes this world, Lewis Hyde ; The long ships, Frans G. Bengtsson ; Superheroes : fashion and fantasy, Andrew Bolton ; Julius Knipl, real estate photographer, Ben Katchor ; Herma, MacDonald Harris ; Casting the runes and other ghost stories, M.R. James ; Brown sugar kitchen, Tanya Holland ; Monster man, Gary Gianni ; The sailor on the seas of fate, Michael Moorcock ; American Flagg!, Howard Chaykin ; D'Aulaires' Norse myths, Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire ; "The rocket man," Ray Bradbury ; John Carter of Mars : warlord of Mars, Marv Wolfman, Gil Kane et al. ; The escapists, Brian K. Vaughan ; Summerland ; Fountain city, excerpt
- Outros. Fountain city, excerpt ; The mysteries of Pittsburgh ; Gentlemen of the road ; The phantom tollbooth, Norton Juster ; Wonder when you'll miss me, Amanda Davis
- Appendix : liner notes. 1980-1996, Carsickness ; Uptown special vinyl edition, Mark Ronson.