Showing Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon

Paperback. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 256 in Publisher: Harper Perennial Maps and Legends is On 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.