To All the Introductions I’ve Loved Before
by Michael Chabon
Jan 22, 2019
4 minutes
“I never read introductions,” says Rose, the younger of my two daughters. She thinks it over for a second, frowns; the statement doesn’t quite ring true. She amends it: “Well, I’ve read two,” she says. One turns out to be Jack Kerouac’s introduction to Robert Frank’s The Americans, required reading for a photography class: “But it was fine because I like his style.” The other is Sherman Alexie’s introduction to his own The Lone Ranger and (a favorite book, and author, of Rose’s), because “it felt like it would be rude not to.”
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