Synopses & Reviews
Maps and Legends is an essay collection by American author Michael Chabon that was scheduled for official release on May 1, 2008, although some copies shipped two weeks early from various online bookstores. The book is Chabon's first book-length foray into nonfiction, with 16 essays, some previously published.[1] Several of these essays are defenses of the author's work in genre literature (such as science fiction, fantasy, and comics), while others are more autobiographical, explaining how the author came to write several of his most popular works.
Review
"Chabon argues that there's a place for both high and low art in literature and that what really makes a reader is a love for the story...Affectionate and funny." Library Journal
Review
"Entertainment, as Chabon argues in this collection's opening essay, is what literary art all boils down to. As in all his books, there's plenty of it to be had in Maps and Legends." New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay pens a work of literary non-fiction — a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing.
About the Author
Michael Chabon lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, and their children.