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About Michael Chabon
See more books from this Author“The Recipe for Life” pays tribute to the Jewish scholar Gershom Scholem, whose essay “The Idea of the Golem” helped with Chabon’s conception of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” And the wide-ranging “Imaginary Homelands,” turning on a controversy surrounding a magazine article Chabon ...
Jun 29 2008 | Read Full Review of Maps and LegendsMaps and Legends by Michael Chabon Buy it from the Guardian bookshop Search the Guardian bookshop It was while reading the essay "Imaginary Homelands" in the collec...
Apr 03 2010 | Read Full Review of Maps and LegendsThe second, "Golems I Have Known", is a strange, circling essay that charts Chabon's own shifting sense of himself as a writer and a Jew by telling a linked set of stories about golems, those clay men of Jewish mythology.
Apr 10 2010 | Read Full Review of Maps and LegendsYou would hardly think, reading Chabon's new book of essays, that he won the Pulitzer Prize for a book about comics.
Jan 21 2008 | Read Full Review of Maps and LegendsBut in the process of exploring where he?s from, Chabon is also offering an object lesson: Excavating ways that pay attention to particular passions, defending childhood loves, and preserving one?s own internal dialects are fertile terrains for making art.
Jun 02 2008 | Read Full Review of Maps and LegendsAs an opener to Maps and Legends, Michael Chabon's slim book of sixteen linked essays celebrating reading and writing, the author proposes that we expand our notion of entertainment to include the reading of literature.
| Read Full Review of Maps and LegendsIn the past, relocating was always easy because our t… The Granite City School District would have to raise property taxes by $1,500 a year for the owner of a house worth $100,000 to avoid closing … Jim Sim...
Apr 27 2008 | Read Full Review of Maps and LegendsMaps and Legends (McSweeney's), Michael Chabon's first collection of nonfiction, makes an inviting case for bridging the gap between popular and literary writing, as he considers the high and the low, from comics to Cormac McCarthy.
| Read Full Review of Maps and LegendsThis book is about stories that infect us with enthusiasm and pleasure.
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