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Bookends : collected intros and outros / Michael Chabon.

Chabon, Michael, (author.).

Summary:

"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"-- Publisher's description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062851291
  • ISBN: 0062851292
  • ISBN: 0062888137
  • ISBN: 9780062888136
  • Physical Description: 192 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Harper Perennial paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2019.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Subject: Chabon, Michael > Books and reading.
Literature > History and criticism.
Essays.
Genre: Essays.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System. (Show)
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Easton Main Library 814.54 C428b (Text) 31901004312346 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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