Quotes from Michael Chabon's books, and about them
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay on The Legends of the Jews: “he saw that Joe had fallen asleep in the armchair with one of his dusty old books on Kabbalah or whatever it was—Volume IV of Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews—pitched like a tent on his lap.”
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay on Gladiator: “in particular from Philip Wylie, whose Hugo Danner was the bulletproof superhuman hero of his novel Gladiator; from Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose orphaned hero, young Lord Greystoke, grew up to become Tarzan...”