Here Chabon happily deals in mythologies of Norse gods and comic book heroes, and spotlights their influences on his own writing: As Maps and Legends continues, its author increasingly becomes a participant in these things that he loves to discuss, eventually detailing his own writing process, from his first novel's origins to his gleeful guilt at learning he's tricked some suckers into believing that Kavalier and Clay actually existed. He delves into the subtleties and contradictions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries he hashes out the interplay between the adventurous plot and humanist themes in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials he wrestles with whether Cormac McCarthy's The Road is an epic, or a work of science fiction, or of horror, or all three. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Chabon, Michael and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. "My passion and my ambition as a reader and a writer were forged in the smithy of genre fiction," writes Michael Chabon in Maps and Legends, a collection of essays that, at its best, takes us to that smithy, with Chabon as our blacksmith/tour guide.
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