Maps and Legends (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved AndrewTheLott’s request to combine 4 books, including Maps and Legends, Saturday, August 29 2009.

AndrewTheLott submitted a request to combine 4 books, including Maps and Legends, Tuesday, August 11 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Maps and Legends Friday, July 31 2009.

• Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 parts — 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. His own fiction, meanwhile, is explored from the perspective of personal history: post-collegiate desperation sparks his debut, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; procrastination and doubt reveal the way toward Wonder Boys; a love of comics and a basement golem combine to create the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; and an enigmatic Yiddish phrasebook unfurls into The Yiddish Policeman's Union.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Maps and Legends Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Michael Chabon: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Maps and Legends Friday, July 17 2009.

• ENTERTAINMENT HAS A bad name.