Re: Michael Chabon: Gentlemen Of The Road
From a radio interview here in Australia, Chabon says:
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...the desire to write a book of swashbuckling adventure definitely comes out of my youthful reading, stuff that I loved to read when I was a kid; Alexandre Dumas and Robert E Howard and Michael Moorcock and Fritz Leiber and a lot of those classic works of adventure fiction involving horsemen and swordsmen and so on, that stuff I liked to read when I was younger.
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