![]() ![]() ![]() Although almost all the essays have appeared elsewhere, bound together, this fascinating volume makes a passionate defense for the "borderlands" of literature, "the spaces between genres," "the secret shelves between the sections in the bookstore." It is a diverse assortment of writings, including serious literary criticism, some autobiographical sketches and a few more opinionated polemics, all of which in one way or another endeavor to counter the "disdain and neglect" Chabon finds too often heaped upon "nonliterary" fiction.Ĭhabon contends that the lines between serious literature and genre were far less clear in prior times. Now, after 20 years, six more novels and two books of short stories, McSweeney's has published "Maps and Legends," Chabon's first collection of nonfiction. For a typically angst-ridden college student working a summer job just a short walk from the very building now christened "the cloud factory," Michael Chabon's "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" was both a solace and a revelation, and it marked the beginning of a truly remarkable literary career. ![]() Word was quietly circulating through the city about a new novel - "our 'Catcher in the Rye' " was how a high school friend described it. ![]() By Michael Chabon McSweeney's 222 pages $24īelieve it or not, to be young and living in Pittsburgh in the summer of 1988 was something very special. ![]()
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