Summary
A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon -- "one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). In Bookends, Pulitzer Priz... Full description
- 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 toolbooth / Norton Juster
- Wonder when you'll miss me / Amanda Davis
- Appendix: liner notes
- 1980-1996, carsickness
- Uptown special vinyl edition / Mark Ronson.