The Baltimore Sun is shifting the platform for its blogs, so Read Street is moving to a new address: http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/books/read-street. Don't forget to update your bookmarks and your RSS feeds (the new feed is http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/books/read-street/rss2.0.xml).

The new platform will give Read Street a different look. And it may be a bit disconcerting at first, because the archives won't be moved over, leaving the blog with an empty feel.

But it won't change my approach to presenting daily news and views about books.

See you at the new place! If you have a question or comment about the new look, email me at dave.rosenthal@baltsun.com.

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For your viewing pleasure, the official trailer for "The Hunger Games," the movie drawn from the popular dystopian novel of Suzanne Collins. The related works in the trilogy are "Mockingjay" and "Catching Fire." The movie is scheduled for a March 23, 2012 release.

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Oobleck has to be one of the oddest outgrowths of literature I've ever seen, but the green slime looks like a blast to make in the kitchen.

The Instructables website says Oobleck is "a non-newtonian fluid. That is, it acts like a liquid when being poured, but like a solid when a force is acting on it. You can grab it and then it will ooze out of your hands. Make enough Oobleck and you can even walk on it!" (Or run, as in this YouTube video.)

Oobleck is named for the goo featured in Dr. Seuss' book, "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" (1949). It's a sequel of sorts to "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins," (1938) and features King Derwin of Didd and his young subject. The King asks his magicians -- "men of groans and howls, mystic men who eat boiled owls" -- to summon something other than snow and rain from the sky, so they oblige with the green-ness that threatens to ruin his kingdom.

Not one of Dr. Seuss' most memorable books, but its impact lingers today, in kitchens around the world.

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I hope all are having a happy Veterans Day -- especially my favorite veteran: my dad, Emanuel Rosenthal. His Army unit -- the 83rd Infantry, also known as the Thunderbolt or Ohio division -- had a memorable and historic push through Europe beginning in the summer of 1944. They moved through Normandy in the days after D-Day, fought in the breakout from Normandy, and rushed across France, only to be caught up in the horrific Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. The division later pushed into Germany, and was involved in liberating a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

It's hard for me to imagine the thoughtful, soft-spoken man I grew up with as a warrior. But he was like most of the men and women who fought in World War II and other wars -- he never made a big deal about his service to the country. I've visited some of the places his division passed through in France and Belgium, but he never showed much interest in going there himself. In recent years -- he'll celebrate his 90th birthday this month -- he has talked about it a bit more, but only when pressed with questions.

So in that same spirit, on this Veteran's Day, I'll recommend the documentary "Restrepo," or the companion book "War" by Sebastian Junger, both very human looks at soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. To a one -- even a future Medal of Honor recipient -- they showed a selflessness and dedication that is remarkable under such grueling conditions.

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Bil Keane, whose Family Circus cartoon about a family with four cute little kids is carried in nearly 1,500 newspapers, has died at age 89.

According to the Los Angeles Times' obit, Keane mined his own family for material. He admitted to modeling the bespectacled and often befuddled Daddy on himself. His wife, Thelma, was the inspiration for the always-loving and ever-patient mother, also named Thel.

"I don't just try to be funny," Keane told The Times in 1990. "Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart."

The Philadelphia-born Keane was a self-taught artist, and had his first cartoon published in the Philadelphia Daily News in 1936, earning a dollar, according to his website. During World War II,he was stationed in Australia -- where he met his future wife -- and his drawings touted war bonds and safety among the soldiers.

King Features, which distributes the cartoon, said William Aloysius Keane started out imitating the styles of some of The New Yorker magazine cartoonists of the late 1930s, such as George Price, Richard Decker and Peter Arno. At the time, he and some friends were putting out a satire magazine, The Saturday Evening Toast, when he decided to drop the second L in "Bill." "I really did it just to be different," he said. "I thought it was a little more distinguished and started signing my cartoons that way, and it stuck."

King said the first Family Circus cartoon, which ran on February 29, 1960, showed Mommy surrounded by a roomful of toy clutter, answering the door to a survey person who asked, "Any children?" Keane's son, Jeff, will keep Family Circus going, the syndicate said.

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The battle for e-reader supremacy keeps ratcheting up, as the holiday shopping season near -- with Amazon's announcement this week that it will start selling the full line of Kindles at Target, Best Buy and other stores.

By lining up more than 16,000 retail outlets, Amazon will give consumers a chance to handle the Kindle in all its flavors, as well as to get assistance if something goes wrong. That puts the Kindle on a more equal footing with the Nook, which is sold through Barnes & Noble stores. And it should be particularly helpful for test-driving the Fire, a tablet version of the Kindle -- just as the Apple stores are convenient places to try out the iPad.

Amazon said that the Kindle line would be sold, starting November 15, "in any Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Staples, Sam’s Club, RadioShack, Office Depot, as well as several other retailers." It noted that the $79 Kindle has been available in stores since shortly after it was introduced. Mike McKenna, vice president for Amazon Kindle, said in a statement, “We’re excited to be working with popular retailers across the country to offer their customers Kindle Fire as well as Kindle, Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G this holiday."

I'm excited to see what's next in the seasonal battle. It reminds me of the great scene in "Miracle on 34th Street," when the executives of Macy's and Gimbels are trying to outdo each other with Christmas promotions. Classic.

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News that Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is resigning, in the aftermath of a sex abuse probe involving a former assistant, marks a sad end to a long-running legacy. Paterno, 84, had been head coach at the school for nearly a half-century, and had built a reputation as a guy with integrity, one who avoided the recruiting scandals that hit other big-time football programs.

So what's he doing in a book blog? Well, for one thing, Paterno was an English major at Brown University, before building a career in football. And for another, he may be the most-written-about college coach in America. (Though all those autobiographies will have to add a sad coda.) Lastly, I've always admired Paterno from afar, and for the past several years, have made a trek with friends to Happy Valley to watch a game. We were foiled in the last attempt by the freak October snowstorm -- I got as far as Harrisburg before having to turn back. Maybe that was a bad omen.

To read about the pre-scandal Paterno, here are some options:

"Pride of the Lions: The Biography of Joe Paterno" by Frank Fitzpatrick

"No Ordinary Joe: The Biography of Joe Paterno" by Michael O'Brien

"Playing for Paterno: One Coach, Two Eras: a Father and Son's Personal Recollections of Playing for JoePa" by Charles Pittman and Tony Pittman

Continue reading "Joe Paterno resigning -- sad end to great legacy" »

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Yesterday, I noted the arrival of the Nook tablet, which will go head-to-head with the Amazon Fire, and also offer some competition for Apple's iPad. For those who are already looking forward to Black Friday, here are excerpts from the latest reviews and commentary about the Nook tablet, which will cost $249 -- about $50 more than the Fire -- and be available Nov. 18.

Christian Science Monitor: Perhaps the biggest difference between the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire? Because Barnes & Noble is more focused on selling e-books and other digital reading content, it’s less restrictive than the Kindle Fire, allowing users to access content from other suppliers. Amazon, by contrast, is reportedly selling the Kindle Fire at a loss so it can make profits selling Amazon services.

PCWorld: Double the amount of RAM and storage alone would justify the extra $50. ... The price might be as low as half...of one of Apple’s tablets, but you won’t get any cameras for video chatting...and the selection of third-party apps is minimal, as both Barnes & Noble and Amazon curate their own app portals.

Wired:[O]n a 7-inch tablet with proper hardware inside, gaming feels just right. In fact, an emphasis on gaming, video and digital comics (a new media category for Barnes & Noble, thanks to a big new partnership with Marvel) suggests to me that the Nook Tablet’s target audience (or one of them, at least) isn’t so much the middle-class career moms who snapped up the first-gen Nook Color, but rather their offspring, who love games, comics and Harry Potter.

Computerworld: [T]he Kindle Fire offers 8GB of storage with no SD card expansion -- however, it does offer streaming media via Amazon Prime, an advantage that makes the Fire as much a media source as an e-reader.

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Just in time for holiday shopping, Barnes & Noble has intruduced its Nook tablet, jumping into the high-level tablet competition with Amazon's Kindle Fire and Apple's iPad (which was always touted as more than an e-reader).

The Fire, which will be released Nov. 15, sells for $199. That's lower than the Nook tablet's $249 price, and the iPad 2's entry-level $499.

CNET broke down some of the differences between the Nook tablet, which comes out Nov. 18, and Kindle Fire. It gave the nod to the Nook for more memory and storage, as well as bricks-and-mortar stores for customer support. The Kindle Fire, meanwhile, has a lower price and Amazon's broad content offerings to choose from.

We'll revisit the topic as holiday shopping starts in earnest, because both of the new tablets are sure to be big sellers -- and a big problem for consumers struggling to choose.

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Andy Rooney, who died Friday at age 92, was a favorite TV curmudgeon, that wacky uncle who sometimes had trouble confronting change -- like the e-books he discusses here.

The Baltimore Sun's TV blogger, David Zurawik, notes that Rooney "wrote for television since its birth, spending nearly 60 years at CBS, 30 of them behind the camera as a writer and producer, first for entertainment and then news programming, before becoming a household name – a role he said he was never comfortable in. He preferred to be known as a writer and was the author of best-selling books and a national newspaper column, in addition to his 60 MINUTES essays. But it is his television role as the inquisitive and cranky commentator on 60 MINUTES that made him a cultural icon. For 33 years, Rooney had the last word on the most watched television program in history. "

Rooney leaves behind a long list of entertaining video clips, which we can relive via YouTube. And for those with a curmudgeonly streak, there are always his printed words, in "Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit ," "My War" and other books.

R.I.P. Andy. I bet God's getting an earful right now.

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Look out libraries, Amazon may have you in its sights with the new Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.

The new program allows Kindle owners to borrow up to one book a month, with no fixed return date. The perk is being bundled with Amazon Prime membership, which includes free shipping and streaming movies for the $79 annual fee. So for pure reading, it isn't a better deal than a library card at the Enoch Pratt or another area library.

Amazon is touting the service with titles such as "Water for Elephants," "Moneyball," and "The Finkler Question." But that masks one of the short-comings: a lack of hot, new best-sellers. The Wall Street Journal noted: “None of the six largest publishers in the U.S. is participating. Several senior publishing executives said recently they were concerned that a digital-lending program of the sort contemplated by Amazon would harm future sales of their older titles or damage ties to other book retailers.”

It would be foolhardy to predict the impact of Amazon's service on the program's first day. That would be like making an Opening Day prediction that the St. Louis Cardinals would win the World Series. Hah! But with Amazon's marketing might, and its broadening lineup of Kindles, I bet the new program will eventually gain a big consumer base -- even if it doesn't hurt libraries.

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The arrests this week of four Georgia men on charges of conspiring to attack government buildings and employees while seeking out a ricin recipe -- has drawn attention to the online novel "Absolved" by Mike Vanderboegh. Authorities say it was a case of life imitating art, as the men drew inspiration from Vanderboegh's musing about folks battling government oppression -- sort of the anti-Occupy movement, with ammo.

According to the Associated Press, court documents accused the men of trying to obtain an explosive device for the attacks, and of seeking out a formula for the highly lethal toxin ricin.

Vanderboegh told AP his novel was a "useful dire warning" about what could happen if the federal government encroaches too far on the rights of armed citizens. On the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog, he offered a more detailed disavowal: "My as-yet-unpublished novel Absolved, for the uninitiated, begins with the premise that the ATF, for political agenda reasons of their own, has staged a deadly raid on the wrong Alabama good old boy from Winston County and what happens in the unintended consequences of that stupidity. There is nothing in there about ricin, or terrorist attacks on civilians (unless you count the forces of the federal government) or deliberate targeting of innocents. ... Absolved is fiction. I hope it is a "useful dire warning." However, I am as much to blame for the Georgia Geriatric Terrorist Gang as Tom Clancy is for Nine Eleven."

For a closer look at Absolved, you can check out the chapters gathered at the Gun Rights Examiner website.

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If you need a good read, the folks at b, which is a part of the Baltimore Sun, have assembled a great photo gallery of recommendations from area libraries. leading off is "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern, which has been praised in reviews.

I jus finished Erik Larson's "In The Garden of Beasts," which was disappointing. I'll provide a more detailed review later this week, but in general, I found the characters uncharismatic, and the historical drama strangely undramatic. And that's saying something for Nazi-era Germany. I really wanted to like it, but found myself plodding through it.

To get you started on the gallery, here's an excerpt, courtesy of publisher Random House: " The circus arrives without warning.

"No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

"The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons to be seen. No color at all, save for the neighboring trees and the grass of the surrounding fields. Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colorless world. Even what little ground is visible from outside is black or white, painted or powdered, or treated with some other circus trick.

"But it is not open for business. Not just yet."

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For a holiday treat, here's a Halloween Google Doodle, 41 seconds of spooky entertainment. This evening, I'll be editing stories instead of trick-or-treating, unfortunately, so I'll miss Super Mario, Blueberry Muffin and the other costumed kids in the neighborhood.

For me, the most important aspect of the holiday is strategizing over candy: Do you buy cheap candy, so you won't be tempted to pig out on the leftovers? Or get the good stuff -- Mounds and Almond Joy, in my case? And how many candies can you eat before the trick-or-treaters arrive -- is there a proper etiquette?

Have a spooky night!

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The Columbia Flier has a fascinating story about the boyhood home of Randy Pausch, the college professor who gained fame for confronting questions of life and (his impending) death in "The Last Lecture."

The ranch house in Columbia, Md., is being sold, but before any remodeling took place, the artwork that Pausch and his sister created in his bedroom was saved. Some of it will be placed in a studio at Carnegie Mellon University, where he taught, according to David Greisman's article. It's quirky -- just what you'd expect from a future computer science teacher: A silver elevator door reaches nearly from floor to ceiling, the numbers above indicating that the bedroom is on the third of six floors. A green and red box informs the reader that "at the bottom of Pandora's box was hope," and on the ceiling are letters, written backward, that read: "Help! I'm trapped in the attic."

In the article, James David Whitewolf of the university's Entertainment Technology Center, explained the push to save Pausch's work: "Randy was an important person to a lot of people, and what he said and the way he lived his life affected a lot of people. We want to take the few remaining artifacts that we have from his actual living existence and preserve them so that other people can be affected as well."

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Back in balmy Baltimore after a weekend trip to Denver, it's odd to see that city covered in snow. When  I left Monday, the weather was perfect: sunny and in the 70s. (Though just an hour away, in the mountains, it was in the 30s, and skiers were already hitting the hills at Arapahoe Basin.)

If you haven't had a chance to visit Denver, put it on your list. Its fine indie bookstore, Tattered Cover, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. I usually stop in to pick up a book by a local author or one about Colorado.

I didn't make it to the store on this trip, but I did notice a quirky literary promotion while driving in the Capitol Hill area: a vehicle plastered with photos and info about "Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship" by Cathie Beck. Even the license plate -- CHEP CAB -- fit the motif. And on Beck's website, she advertises Balistreri Vineyard’s 2008 Signature Cheap Cabernet Vino (with a $2 discount). Now that's modern book-selling!

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A New York politician's criticism of sex-ed courses has sparked interest in "Go Ask Alice," a popular book that takes a cold, hard look at the life of a teen battling addiction and other problems.

Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis says the state program offers information that's inappropriate for some teens, and points them to such sites as "Go Ask Alice" at Columbia University, according to news reports. Some online reports claim the Columbia health info site borrowed its name from the book.

But Columbia says: The name Go Ask Alice! came to a site producer in a dream, and is not a reference to the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit," "Alice’s Restaurant," the TV show "Alice," Alice in Wonderland, "The Brady Bunch" housekeeper, Alice from "The Honeymooners," Alice Walker, Alice Cooper, Alice in Chains, or any other real or ficticious person, place, or thing named Alice. The Go Ask Alice! Health Question and Answer Internet Resource and The Go Ask Alice Book of Answers: A Guide to Good Physical, Sexual, and Emotional Health by Columbia University's Health Education Program are also not affiliated in any way with the book GO ASK ALICE by Anonymous, edited by Beatrice Sparks, Ph.D.

The book, by an anonymous author, was published in 1971 and got terrific reviews. the new York Times called it "a document of horrifying reality and literary quality."

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I've been away from the blog over the weekend, while on a trip to Denver. I've been reading "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson who is best-known for "Devil in the White City." Nothing like a cross-country flight to tackle a good book. Few distractions -- except for bulky seat-mates pushing your arm off the armrest, and wailing babies. But you can take a break for a tiny bag of peanuts or a 100-calorie bag of crackers -- only takes a minute or two.

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Naomi Wolf, author of "The Beauty Myth," took her support for the Occupy Wall Street movement to the limit last night, getting arrested with a group of protesters in Manhattan. Wolf, shown here in a 2008 publicity shot for the Baltimore Book Festival, was among the many writers who have noted their support for the movement on the OccupyWriters website. Others include Lemony Snicket, the nom de plume of Daniel Handler, Donna Tartt ("The Secret History"), Salman Rushdie ("The Satanic Verses"), Neil Gaiman ("American Gods"), and Andre Dubus III ("House of Sand and Fog").

But voicing support and getting cuffed by police are two different things. Wolf, a la Cornel West (who was arrested in a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court building Sunday), made a stand and was taken to jail. In a piece in the Guardian, she described the arrest, which came after she had attended a Huffington Post event where protesters had gathered. Her lede (a pretty good one): "Last night I was arrested in my home town, outside an event to which I had been invited, for standing lawfully on the sidewalk in an evening gown."

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A large group of authors including Lemony Snicket (a/k/a Daniel Handler) have issued a show of support for the demonstrators at Occupy Wall Street. At the OccupyWriters website, you can see a list of the supporters, and read some original commentary.

The offering from Snicket/Handler, famous for the "Series of Unfortunate Events" series, managed to be funny and ominous at the same time. A sampling:

-- "People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter — it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices."

-- "It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view."

"Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending."

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Cornel West, the Princeton professor, prolific author, and commentator on issues of race and justice, won't be prosecuted for his Sunday protest at the Supreme Court building in Washington. He and 18 others were arrested, but prosecutors decided today not to press charges, according to CBS news.

West has often visited Baltimore to promote his books, which include "Race Matters," "Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud" and "Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom."

I remember his provocative and entertaining appearance at the Baltimore Book Festival in 2008, when he spoke before an overflow crowd.

If you've never had a chance to hear him, drop by the next time he's at the Enoch Pratt or the festival. I'm sure it won't be long, because he always seems to be working on a new book.

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If you've read the "The Blind Side" or watched the movie adaptation, you'll appreciate the news that Sean Tuohy Jr. appears headed to Baltimore for college. Tuohy was part of the family that took in a young Michael Oher, giving him a chance to succeed in school -- and football. The movie closes with scenes of the NFL draft, when Oher is chosen by the Baltimore Ravens.

So there's a certain tidiness to the young Tuohy's announcement that he has verbally committed to play basketball at Loyola University, just a few miles north of the Ravens' stadium. Let's hope that Tuohy and his adoptive big, big brother can stay in the city together for at least a few years. Pro football can be a ruthless business, but these two -- and the rest of the Tuohy family -- deserve some time together. What better place for family reunions than Baltimore?

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The fatal beating of Matthew Shepard in 1998, an anti-gay crime, sparked nationwide protests -- and a number of powerful literary works.

Today, the anniversary of Shepard's death, is a good time to learn more about the University of Wyoming student, shown here in an undated photo. And here are a few places to start:

-- "The Laramie Project," a Moises Kaufman play that uses a series of monologues to examine the issues surrounding Shepard's slaying.

-- "The Meaning of Matthew" by Judy Shepard, an exploration by his mother, who has become a well-known advocate for gay rights and founder of a foundation that bears his name.

-- "Losing Matt Shepard," by University of Wyoming professor Beth Loffreda, looks at the slaying's legacy in Laramie and beyond.

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For a little fun, check out today's Google doodle, which features Gumby, the green, super-flexible hunk of clay that entertained millions of kids over the years. The doodle marks the 90th birthday of cartoonist-creator Art Clokey (pictured here in 1995).

Gumby cartoons often had a literary theme, as he and Pokey often walked right into books to go start their adventures (a clay version of the Wayback Machine, I guess). Asked whether he was trying to promote literacy, Clokey said: “The books were a gimmick, you might say, for getting out of the toy shop and into another world or another setting. That’s the main reason we used them, not to encourage kids to read. That’s the way they are using these parts of our stories now, which is good. But at that time, it was just a gimmick for getting us out of the toy store and back into the toy store from the book. It turned out to be a beautiful device.”

Nevertheless, Gumby became a spokes-character for the Library of Congress in the 1990s, and was used to promote reading.

Happy birthday, Art!

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For your viewing pleasure, here's the "Avengers" trailer, the latest movie to feature the Marvel comics superheroes. The team dates back to a 1963 comic that set Thor, Iron Man, Hulk and others in battle against the fearsome Loki. Membership has changed in the intervening years, but the movie promises a star-studded lineup that includes Captain America and the aforementioned Big Three as they "pull the world back from the brink of disaster." The movie, which stars Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson, is scheduled for release next summer.

My interest in comics has been revived lately as I've been listening to CDs of "Manhood for Amateurs" by Michael Chabon. He opens his series of essays with a heart-tugging piece on his boyhood effort to start a comic-book club in Columbia, Md. -- playing it against Stan Lee's chutzpah in promoting Marvel. And throughout the book, Chabon comes back to the comics theme, which was an inspiration for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay." If you want to bring back some good memories about those primary-color, paneled masterpieces, pick up his book (or give a listen).

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