Looking For Something New? All The Good Stuff Is At The Bottom

An ode to footnotes, references, and compilations.

A few years ago I picked up Michael Chabon’s Bookends, a short essay collection championing introductions, forwards, prefaces, epilogues, and postscripts — you know: the stuff before and after the book you showed up to read. While every decent book could — hell, should- very well stand on its own without introductions or postscripts, I tend to get a lot more out of the story when I can pick up additional context and further readings.