Tag: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon – A Book Review
It’s a rare thing when you come to the end of a book and you’re actually sorry that it’s almost over. You find yourself sorrowful that these characters are soon no longer going to be a part of your daily life. That’s how I felt near the conclusion of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &…
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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon – A Book Review
I’ve become convinced that Michael Chabon is our greatest contemporary American author at the moment. It was his outstanding novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay that planted such a seed in my mind, but it is his novel, Wonder Boys, that cements such a notion. Wonder Boys is about a nearly over the…
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Meeting Michael Chabon
Note: Originally Published 5-24-07 About a year ago, Michael Chabon (who is, in my opinion, America’s greatest living author) had been scheduled to do a book signing at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago in order to promote his latest novel, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. One problem-the book got delayed for many different reasons. That…
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Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon – A Book Review
Maps and Legends was both a real pleasure and incredibly insightful in a multitude of ways. This nonfiction book by Michael Chabon, author of Wonderboys and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, offers a variety of essays that will assuredly please all readers. That’s not to say that all readers will…
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Chabon Writes about Superhero Unitards
Being a regular kind of dude, I have to admit I’m not a frequent (or even infrequent) consumer of The New Yorker. However, last week I read several notices and received a few emails informing me that The New Yorker had published an article focusing on two of my favorite literary subjects: Michael Chabon and…
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