Bookends : collected intros and outros

Author

Michael Chabon

Call Number

• 808.8 B7245 (CEN)

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Edition

First Harper Perennial paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York : Harper Perennial, 2019.

Physical Description

175 pages ; 21 cm

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"--

Contents

• 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.