Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving-amateurs-we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers-should we be lucky enough to find any-some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.
( Michael Chabon )
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