Read By: Michael Chabon
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Michael Chabon on his selection:
Reading Ray Bradbury\\u2019s \\u201cThe Rocket Man\\u201d for the first time\\u2014around the age of ten or eleven\\u2014was the first time I realized that stories were made not of ideas or exciting twists of plot but of\\u202flanguage. Not words, not turns of phrase, but imagery and patterns of metaphor. \\u201cThe Rocket Man\\u201d unfolds to its melancholy conclusion in a series of haunting images of light and dark, machinery and biology, power and fragility. Bradbury, at his best\\u2014as here\\u2014was one of our best.
The Illustrated Man\\xa0at Indiebound
Intro and outro from "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0
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