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A carregar... Bookends: Collected Intros and Outrospor Michael Chabon
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Read on audio. Chabon put together a collection of various Introductions and Outroductions and Liner Notes that he's written over the years. I usually don't read these, but in this case it was very interesting to get a sense of both him and the various books he was introducing. Not many of which, I have read. From a coffee table book about Wes Anderson, to several graphic novels, Michael Moorcock, Ray Bradbury and several of his books. For the Michael Chabon completist, its a worthy read. ( ) Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing. Reason Read: Michael Chabon, nonfiction work This is about introductions and afterwords that we find in books. Do we read them? Why are they there. They are about "a hope of bringing pleasure to the reader" and "shared pleasure about the pure love of a work of art that has inspired, awakened, and transformed the reader." It's also a book about books. Found in the book Intros The Wes Anderson Collection - Matt Zoller Seitz "cinema" Trickster Makes This World - Lewis Hyde "Trickster" nonfiction examination The Long Ships - Frans G. Bengtsson fiction Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy - Andrew Bolton (Secret Skin; an essay in Unitard Theory) about what a superhero does for us the reader Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer - Ben Katchor, graphic novel Herma - MacDonald Harris Fiction, Paris, Casting the Runes and other Ghost Stories - M R James ghost stories, a model of the short story. Brown Sugar Kitchen (a cookbook) Oakland Soul food for the wanderer Monster Man, Gary Gianni, graphic novel illustrator The Sailor on the Seas of Fate - Michael Moorcock heroic fantasy American Flagg - Howard Chaykin comic dystopian earth D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, illustrators winner of Caldecott The Rocket Man - Ray Bradbury (short story) OWN John Carter of Mars; comics Marv Wolfman The Escapists - Brian K Vaughan - graphic novel Summerland - Chabon (OWN) faeries and baseball Fountain City (excerpt) this was a lost book, only 4 chapters have been recovered OUTROS Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Chabon Gentlemen of the Road - Chabon (Jews with Swords) read The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster Wonder When You'll Miss Me - Amanda Davis realistic fiction, YA (a tribute to a beloved friend who died) Appendix: Liner notes Carsickness (a band) Uptown Special Vinyl Edition Mark Roson (music about car care?) Yes it was interesting but it was more a way of finding more to read. I listened to the music and I would say Carsickness is not me, some of the Uptown Special was okay especially the ones that I was familiar. Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing. This is a nice collection, edited by Star Trek: Picard showrunner and all around trekkie Michael Chabon.Unlike his daughter, per the introduction to a book about introductions, I do tend to read all the pre- and post-scripts of a book. In hindsight, I find a majority of them unremarkable so I think the daughter is the wise one here. Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing. Michael Chabon knows his books, his popular culture, his sci-fi - and he knows his "bookends." In this collection of prefaces, forewords, introductions, codas, and outros that Chabon wrote for other works, we get to see Chabon's prose dazzle. It's a fun book to keep at hand and read in bite-sized portions when one has a spare few minutes. Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing. This one is definitely for Michael Chabon fans. It's a collection of writings, but unlike a grouping of essays (like Pops from earlier this year) even Chabon fans are unlikely to have encountered many of these elsewhere. The eclectic nature of the collection means that some will be more interesting to you than others, and which ones those are will differ, no doubt, from you to me. But Chabon is a great writer and that is on display here. Really though, the focus is his passion. He loves books and comics and food and music, and he is writing about things he loves which shows clearly in his words. For me the most interesting pieces were the ones about his own writing, and hands down the winner was the intro starring an old Sam Clay. But Chabon fans will certainly find something worthwhile in here, and as I mentioned these are less likely to be easily found online or to have been read earlier like some of his other writings. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon--"one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). 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. Chabon asks why anyone would write an introduction, or for that matter, read one. His own daughter Rose prefers to skip them. Chabon's answer is simple and simultaneously profound: "a hope of bringing pleasure for the reader." Likewise, afterwords--they are all about shared pleasure, about the "pure love" of a work of art that has inspired, awakened, transformed the reader. Ultimately, this thought-provoking compendium is a series of love letters and thank-you notes, unified by the simple theme of the shared pleasure of discovery, whether it's the boyhood revelation of the most important story in Chabon's life (Ray Bradbury's "The Rocket Man"); a celebration of "the greatest literary cartographer of the planet Mars" (Edgar Rice Burroughs, with his character John Carter); a reintroduction to a forgotten master of ghost stories (M. R. James, ironically "the happiest of men"); the recognition that the worlds of Wes Anderson's films are reassembled scale models of our own broken reality (as is all art); Chabon's own rude awakening from the muse as he writes his debut novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; or a playful parody of lyrical interpretation in the liner notes for Mark Ronson's Uptown Special, the true purpose of which, Chabon insists, is to "spread the gospel of sensible automotive safety and maintenance practices." Galaxies away from academic or didactic, Bookends celebrates wonder--and like the copy of The Phantom Tollbooth handed to young Michael by a friend of his father he never saw again--it is a treasured gift. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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