Audiobook
Bookends : collected intros and outros
Edition
Unabridged.
Performers
Read by the author and George Newbern.
Publication Information
[New York] : Harper Collins Publishers, [2019]
Physical Description
4 audio discs (285 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"--
Notes
Title from container.
Compact discs.
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.