Chabon writes that the fifty-six short stories and four novels that comprise the canon are filled with narrative gaps. To explain this concept, Chabon heavily relies on the Sherlock Holmes canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. “All enduring popular literature has this open-ended quality,” wrote Chabon in the essay, “and extends this invitation to the reader to continue…with the adventure.” Perhaps the most insightful detail to be gleaned about Picard from the essays in Maps and Legends is Chabon’s philosophy that the most enduring genre fiction leaves blank spaces on the figurative map, allowing (or perhaps even compelling) the audience to use their imagination to fill in the gap. RELATED: Keep up with Star Trek: Picard this season with our recaps! “Fan Fictions: On Sherlock Holmes” It seems inescapable that several essays from this latter categorization directly apply to the first season of Picard, on which Chabon served as showrunner and wrote (or co-wrote) the majority of the episodes. While some tend towards personal memoirs, others focus on Chabon’s approach to genre, narrative, and the crafts of writing and storytelling. The collection, which is subtitled “Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands,” includes sixteen essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, many of which were previously published elsewhere. However, that episode, written by Akiva Goldsman and Michael Chabon, takes its title from a 2008 collection of Chabon’s nonfiction essays.įar from being a simple re-appropriation of a favored title, the connection between the collection of essays and the storytelling philosophies on display in Picard might be so significant that the book could be considered something of a Rosetta Stone for the series (albeit one that is predominantly covered in etchings of Yiddish words). This article was originally published on 2/22/22.ĭevoted viewers of Star Trek: Picardwill already be familiar with the phrase “Maps and Legends,” given that it is the title of the second episode of the first season of the series.
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