THURSDAY MARGINALIA: THE “ON THE ROAD” EDITION

* Yann Martel's Life of Pi has captured Abe Books' Best of the Booker survey, edging out Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. THE ELEGANT VARIATION: LA City Beat calls Michael Chabon's Maps and Legends "a treasure trove of intriguing and revealing looks at where Chabon goes to make up his worlds and how he tells his fables of the reconstruction."

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