Quick review

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon left me with just enough power of speech to insist that you guys read it if you haven't already, and a determination to finish reading everything Chabon has ever written and will write, even the one about baseball. He seriously does write these books that make me glomp on and speed through, wanting to absorb more, until the last few pages wherein I realize that the book is going to end and there will not be a sequel, at which point my reading slows to a snail's crawl to absorb every last word.

This one takes the cake, though. Well. It's about comic books. And other things, like the gap between one's public and private identities, and secular Judaism, and the immigrant experience in America, and dysfunctional families, and being queer, and saving the world through fiction, but mainly it's a case for the intrinsic merit of escapist pop culture and comics as an art form.

Currently reading: Footnotes From Gaza by Joe Sacco, speaking of comics. I've also downloaded Light Ahead for the Negro by E.A. Johnson (1904), for future reading.