Trickster Makes This World
October 26th, 2004I have received an Official Request from the Portuguese to shut up about baseball. So…
Rick Kleffel points out that Michael Chabon’s introduction to McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories alludes to Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes This World. This means I will have to read Hyde’s book before Chabon’s anthology comes out (either November 9th or 16th, depending on which source you believe). I read The Gift in college and thought it was tremendous.
October 26th, 2004 at 8:36 am
I very seriously doubt that you have to read it, but you should. It’s a really fascinating, well written study of trickster myth — with great footnotes.