Any Day Now: A Conversation with Anjali Sachdeva
Anjali Sachdeva discusses her debut story collection, ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD.
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Posts Tagged: Michael Chabon
Notable Los Angeles: 6/11–6/17
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable NYC: 5/19–5/25
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 9/23–9/29
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Go to College
College is a rite of passage for many young people, and it’s also a part of the American Dream for many families. Here is a list of books that tackle those fraught four years.
...moreWeekly Geekery
The big bad wolf’s name is Big Data. Michael Chabon messes with our memories. Snape was always a little crabby…
...moreNotable San Francisco: 12/14–12/20
Wednesday 12/14: McSweeney’s presents Emily Carr (Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them, or a Sonnet). Free, 7 p.m., Alley Cat Books. Michael Chabon reads from his new book, Moonglow. Free, 7 p.m., Diesel, A Bookstore. Thursday 12/15: Poet and “political researcher” Peter Dale Scott reads. Free, 7:30 p.m., The Green Arcade.
...moreNotable Portland: 12/1–12/7
Thursday 12/1: Senator Bernie Sanders comes to Portland to share his personal experiences from the campaign trail and read from his book, Our Revolution. Powell’s City of Books, 12 p.m., free. Local author and Olympian Carolyn Wood reads from her memoir, Tough Girl. Another Read Through, 7 p.m., free. Friday 12/2: The Independent Publishing Resource […]
...moreNotable Twin Cities: 11/27–12/3
Monday 11/28: Head out to Common Good Books to hear two featured poets read their newest work. Emilie Buchwald will read from The Moment’s Only Moment, and Margaret Hasse will read from Between Us. 7 p.m., free. Tuesday 11/29: At Barnes & Noble in St. Paul, Julie Klassen will read and sign copies of her […]
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton
Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton on their new book Knives & Ink, cooking with pigs’ heads, and long-distance collaboration.
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Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Christine Pivovar reviews Moonglow by Michael Chabon today in Rumpus Books.
...moreNotable NYC: 11/19–11/25
Saturday 11/19: We Are All Affected, a Trump Protest. Union Square, 11 a.m.–3 p.m., free. Maxe Crandall, Allison Parrish, Charlie Bondhus, and Hal Schrieve celebrate the third issue of Vetch. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free. Sasha Banks and Alex Cuff join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 11/20: Anti-Trump Presidency Rally […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Emily Barton
Emily Barton discusses dieselpunk, genderqueer magic, and the collaboration between reader and writer in her latest novel, The Book of Esther.
...moreThe Amazing Fashion Week Adventures of Michael Chabon and Son
For GQ, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon applies his discerning eye to a subject close to his heart: his fashion-obsessed son: He would lay out its components, making a kind of flat self-portrait on the bedroom floor—oxford shirt tucked inside of cotton sport coat, extra-slim pants (with the adjustable elastic straps inside the waistband stretched to […]
...moreLiterary Cage Match
At The Millions, Jonathan Gottschall compares his experience learning to cage fight with the struggles of being a writer, as “the writing game, like the fighting game, mostly ends in breakage”: Literary history is a history of victors. So stories about the struggles of well-known writers almost always follow the comforting arc of suffering redeemed. But what about […]
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The Last Book I Loved: Abbott Awaits
Summer works like this. Every day small moments cycle like waves within tides, eroding our opportunities on a geological scale invisible from our point of immersion.
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The Rumpus Interview with Benjamin Parzybok
Author Benjamin Parzybok talks about his new novel, Sherwood Nation, climate fiction, the difference between post-collapse and post-apocalyptic, and how novels can predict the future if they try hard enough (and get lucky).
...moreCalling Freddy
Michael Chabon has a short story over on Tablet; in it, he negotiates the acquaintance of a boy and his crippled neighbor: There was no menace or queerness in his manner, none at all. Mischief, yes. And the illicit sharing of a trust. I wondered if he were keeping some interesting animal, a snake, say. […]
...moreMichael Chabon: Rock God
For the Guardian, John Dugdale examines the history of collaborative work between well-known musicians and authors. The impetus for the article stems from recent reports of Michael Chabon’s contributions to Mark Ronson’s forthcoming album.
...moreMichael Chabon’s Punk Rock Days
[The] Bats were a fine little band, a unique assemblage of diverse strengths and quirks, anchored by one of the most rock-solid drummers ever to grace the Pittsburgh scene, and hampered only by the weakness of their goofball frontman. That’s a quote from Michael Chabon, novelist, screenwriter, and “goofball frontman” of 80’s Pittsburgh punk band, […]
...moreIn Search of Lost Epigraphs
At The Millions, Jonathan Russell Clark ruminates on the idea of the epigraph. Over the past decade, Clark has kept a Word document filled with quotes from literature, and the amassed 30,000 words, he admits, are less for insight and inspiration than a source of potential epigraphs for his own work. Clark analyzes several epigraphs […]
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THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: WONDER BOYS BY MICHAEL CHABON
Michael Chabon’s career is often the work of a writer hell-bent on destroying the line between “literary” and “genre,” and his most famous work is an epic adventure novel about comic-book creators.
...morePynchon’s Paranoiac Vision
In 1966, when The Crying of Lot 49 was published, Pynchon’s “all-ecompassing paranoiac vision of history” seemed “so kooky” and “far-fetched.” Fast forward to 2013, and Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge, a novel focused on events before, during, and after 9/11 “becomes not just an ideal but a compulsory subject for a late Pynchon novel,” as Michael […]
...moreReaching Across the Bay Bridge
In a sort of Bay Area meeting of minds, Scott Hutchins, author of a novel about San Francisco and Silicon Valley, profiles Michael Chabon, whose latest novel takes place mainly in Oakland and Berkeley. Read it to learn about Chabon’s love for the East Bay, his similarities to Charles Dickens, and Telegraph Avenue‘s beginnings as a […]
...moreThe Latest in Superhero Stories
Michael Chabon knows how to turn a phrase. Complex language is part of what makes his work so idiosyncratically his and his veteran wordsmith tendencies are widely applicable and translatable over different mediums (he’s co-writing an HBO series with his wife, Ayelet Waldman). Yesterday was the release date for his children’s book, The Astonishing Secret […]
...moreMore Writers Taking TV Turns
Veteran director, Darren Aronofsky, is directing a new television series called “Hobgoblin.” How is this piece of news relevant to the literary community? Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are writing the pilot, swept up in the TV magnetism that has attracted more and more seasoned writers as of late. The pilot is about magicians and […]
...moreSummer Picks From Michael Chabon, Susan Orlean, Jennifer Egan, and More
A new article over at Mother Jones gives us summer nonfiction picks from some of the biggest writers working today. Susan Orlean recommends The Looming Tower, Jennifer Egan selects The Image, and Michael Chabon has this to say about The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: “A single, immense, thrilling work of literary theory disguised as a reference […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Lethem
“I don’t go down wrong paths; I’d rather stare at the screen and delete until I’ve put something down that is working.”
...moreIs Michael Chabon Giving Grownups Too Much Credit?
In a recent article in the New York Review of Books, Michael Chabon laments the loss of a sense of adventure in childhood. “If children are not permitted—not taught—to be adventurers and explorers as children,” he said, “What will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?” But Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky at The Kenyon […]
...moreChildhood as a Branch of Cartography
“We have this idea of armchair traveling, of the reader who seeks in the pages of a ripping yarn or a memoir of polar exploration the kind of heroism and danger, in unknown, half-legendary lands, that he or she could never hope to find in life. This is a mistaken notion, in my view. People […]
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