Jordan Crane's amazing cover for Michael Chabon's Maps and Legends
Additionally, the subject for the book is fascinating. It contains a series of essays on genre fiction. Very fun, as he covers some favorites, like Philip Pulman's His Dark Materials, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and Will Eisner.
Can't say that I have had such fun reading literary criticism for quite some time! And the cover rocks, take a look at the www.boing.boing.net photos.
Chabon seems to have a Midas touch for fun but what's amazing about his adventures as a writer is the multiple routes he's taken. In creating fictional hoaxes as in this article at N+ 1 there's a note of playful brilliance: (even if they pooh-pooh his efforts) http://www.nplusonemag.com/?q=revenge-regressive-avant-garde And now he's created a site where he writes a short-short story everyday under a different identity: http://fastfictions.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/i’m-michael-chabon/ Chabon has a manageable writing schedule of ten to four everyday so perhaps his prolific and balanced nature should come as no surprise.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the insights into Chabon's writing. I'd love to write from 10-4 every day!
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