Summary
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"... Full description
- Trickster in a suit of lights: thoughts on the modern short story
- Maps and legends
- Fan fictions: on Sherlock Holmes
- Ragnarok boy
- On daemons & dust
- Kids' stuff
- Killer hook: Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!
- Dark adventure: on Cormac McCarthy's The road
- The Other James
- Landsman of the lost
- Thoughts on the death of Will Eisner
- My back pages
- Diving into the wreck
- Recipe for life
- Imaginary homelands
- Golems I have known, or, Why my elder son's middle name is Napoleon.