Murder case a glimpse into stresses of caretaking Nov 8, 2009
Review: Michael Chabon explores manhood in book ... 99), by Michael Chabon: The singular experience of becoming a father can change everything ... With the arrival of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon's new memoir, "Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son," another venerable author has chimed in with his take on the greater meaning of being a man and, of course, being a father. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
For Improving Early Literacy, Reading Comics Is No Child's Play Nov 7, 2009
Recently, many publishers and creators of comics -- including Spiegelman and another Pulitzer Prize winner, Michael Chabon -- have advocated reconnecting a juvenile audience with comics. So far, those efforts have met with mixed success. (Science Daily)
Critics' Picks: The dark prince of postwar Italy Nov 1, 2009
In "Manhood for Amateurs," Michael Chabon recounts the glories and embarrassments of fatherhood -- and man purses By Jed Lipinski ... Though Michael Chabon's fixation with DC comics, bisexuality and pink Polo shirts is not exactly "manly," his life -- as evidenced by an endearing new collection of short essays -- has been a picture of modern American manhood. (Salon)
A Rumsfeld-era reminder about what causes Terrorism Oct 22, 2009
In "Manhood for Amateurs," Michael Chabon recounts the glories and embarrassments of fatherhood -- and man purses By Jed Lipinski. When my kid went up, up and away. (Salon)
DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't Oct 22, 2009
He said, "It's kind of 'help me,' kind of 'save me,' kind of 'redeem me.' And we thought, OK, that's perfect. Those are all good tones. This is your most overtly Jewish movie, by a long shot. But I was able to come up with a brief list of other Jewish characters in your films. John Goodman's immortal Jewish convert in "The Big Lebowski," of course, who announces that he doesn't fucking roll on Shabbos. And I think we can assume that Barton Fink is Jewish. E.C. We assumed that too. J.C.: Well,... (Salon)
After 10 years, MacDonald’s ‘All Souls’ still rules Oct 4, 2009
Coming out Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, by Michael Chabon (Harper). Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World, by Harold S. Kushner (Knopf). (Boston Globe)
• Events Calendar Sep 18, 2009
" Other scheduled authors include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Nov. 10, Annie Proulx on Feb. 16 and Michael Chabon on April 7. Series tickets are 85- 110, at 331-8000 or .Knitting/Sun ValleyKnitting workshop with author and designer Brandon Mably, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. SEPT. 29-30 at Sun Valley Inn. The event is part of the annual retreat of Isabel's Needepoint, a needlepoint and knitting shop in Ketchum. Mably, a colleague of author and designer Kaffe Fassett, is based in London. Cost is 400 for the... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
- Life Out Here: Preaching to my students? (1) Sep 16, 2009
We also discussed our readings of the classic novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold by living legend Gabriel Garcia Marquez and pondered a short story about a couple of fifth-grade weirdos by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon. To top off the day, we talked about some composition matters and about the letters to the editor the students are required to write. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Good Books Dont Have to Be Hard, Lev Grossman, The Wall Street Journal Sep 1, 2009
Writers like Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Donna Tartt, Kelly Link, Audrey Niffenegger, Richard Price, Kate Atkinson, Neil Gaiman, and Susanna Clarke, to name just a few, are busily grafting the sophisticated, intensely aware literary language of Modernism onto the sturdy narrative roots of genre fiction: fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, romance. They're forging connections between literary spheres that have been hermetically sealed off from one another for a century. (Harper's Magazine)
New Fall Books Penned by Prizewinners Aug 28, 2009
Other highlights: Barbara Kingsolver's "The Lacuna," Ha Jin's "A Good Fall," Wally Lamb's "Wishing and Hoping," essay collections by Chinua Achebe and Zadie Smith, and a memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon. Novels are coming from Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and perennial Nobel candidate Philip Roth. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
• Essayist David Sedaris leads off lecture series lineup Aug 28, 2009
Udesen said she was nervous about being able to match last year's lineup - which featured Gloria Steinem, Michael Chabon and Michael Pollan. "I am just so thrilled that we're able to have this group here. It would be an impressive lineup anywhere, but for an arts center our size it verges on the unbelievable."They are all so smart and challenging and clued-in to the issues and culture of our time. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Literary ghost stories Aug 2, 2009
The second volume, "American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now" (Library of America, $35) begins in 1940 and showcases contemporary writers -- Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Steven Millhauser -- who have explored new styles and subjects, pushing the genre's envelope till it began to seep into the mainstream. The early days are represented by Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Washington Irving. (Erie Times-News, PA)
DVD Report: This week's new releases (Aug. 2) Aug 2, 2009
Literary pedigree unfortunately doesn t mean much for this adaptation of Pulitzer winner Michael Chabon s debut novel. Jon Foster is a recent college grad set on one course by gangster dad Nick Nolte, but pulled off on another by Sienna Miller and Peter Sarsgaard. (Boston Globe)
Food, Inglorious Food Jul 18, 2009
If a great Vance book "had the name Italo Calvino on it, or just a foreign name, it would be received as a profound meditation," says novelist Michael Chabon. The article's author asserts, "Vance worked exclusively in adolescent genres, if under that heading we include the transformative experience of falling in love for the first time with a beautiful sentence.". (Slate)
The Real Gossip Girl Jul 8, 2009
New York Review of Books, July 16In an , Michael Chabon reminisces about the "thin two-acre remnant of a once-mighty wilderness" where he and his friends growing up in Maryland pretended to be "braves, crusaders, commandos, blues and grays." He laments the fact that today's coddled children are not given the same freedom to explore their surroundings unattended. "If children are not permittednot taughtto be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure,... (Slate)
Turn your bookishness into decor Jun 30, 2009
Now, Joy and Ismojo's cookbooks, Michael Chabon novels and travel guides fill the bookcase cubbies, along with vases and family photos. "It encourages us not to collect junk," says Joy, 44. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Book lovers trade tomes through Web sites Jun 24, 2009
It includes titles by such hot authors as Michael Chabon and Bill Bryson ... It includes titles by such hot authors as Michael Chabon and Bill Bryson. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
interview with Michael Moorcock Jun 19, 2009
"? Pretty much now. There might be a little bit of tweaking in future, but nothing special. In fact I've done the reverse with the current Del Rey Elric books where I've republished them in their original order. At least where fantasy books are concerned. But I suspect if I ever had the time I'd do some revision on the Pyat books and maybe a little on Mother London. Which artist has best depicted your idea of Elric? I'm partial to Micheal Whelan. I love Whelan's stuff but his Elric's just a... (Harper's Magazine)
Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene Jun 18, 2009
Authors Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Chabon and George Packer; playwright-actor Wallace Shawn; and talk show host Craig Ferguson are on the bill for City Arts res, which announced the first half of its 2009-10 season this week. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
From the Editor: Opinion editor takes humor, smarts to Ohio Jun 16, 2009
Some of them: Amy Tan, Tom Robbins, Frank McCourt, David Guterson, Isabel Allende, Anne Patchett, John Lescroart, Michael Chabon, Frances Mayes, Maxine Hong Kingston, James Rollins and Harlan Coben. On Thursday, Alice Hoffman will be the featured BBC author (6 p.m. at Borders on Fair Oaks Boulevard; call (916) 321-1128 for more information). (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Recommended summer reads Jun 16, 2009
"The Yiddish Policemen's Union," by Michael Chabon (2007). The novel goes beyond just being a brilliant murder mystery. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The G-20's coming! The G-20's coming! May 31, 2009
I was hoping for a return of the favor -- perhaps a copy of "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" by Pitt graduate Michael Chabon. But I guess that will have to wait for another summit. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Barack Obama's Facebook Feed May 16, 2009
Barack Obama invited James Earl Jones, Michael Chabon, and Saul Williams to the event White House Poetry Jam. Kanye WestWTF WHERES MY INVITE MAN.. (Slate)
Parents Who Talk Too Much May 14, 2009
This Berkeley mama of four (and wife of novelist Michael Chabon) is astute, and honest, enough to acknowledge that her tell-all crowd has ended up with its own judgmental style: "[W]e bad moms are happy to confess our sins because we're confident that those who come closest, and with the most sanctimony, to emulating the self-effacing, self-sacrificing, soft-spoken, cheerful, infinitely patient Good Mother are the real Bad Mothers" whose kids are fated to be uptight prigs. And she admits the... (Slate)
Is the White House's Poetry Jam Good for Poetry? May 13, 2009
A few of the artists featured at tonight's event include: poet Mayda Del Valle, actor James Earl Jones, writer Michael Chabon, playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, and musician Esperanza Spalding. Word on the internet is that Saul Williams will be in the House. (Slate)
Bad Mother's Day May 12, 2009
Parental guidance required Ayelet Waldman with her husband, the novelist Michael Chabon ... Her husband, the novelist Michael Chabon, tells a story of substantiation ... Parental guidance required … Ayelet Waldman with her husband, the novelist Michael Chabon. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
IN MY LIBRARY: AYELET WALDMAN May 10, 2009
Slammed by UrbanBaby and sniped at on "Oprah," the lawyer-turned-writer wife of novelist Michael Chabon has returned with a rebuttal in the form of a book: "Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace.". It's "half-memoir, half-rant," she tells The Post's Barbara Hoffman. (New York Post -- Opinions)
'Bad Mother’ makes her case - Ayelet Waldman explores transition from legal career to writing about parenthood May 9, 2009
Her husband, novelist Michael Chabon, tells a story that proves it. One time when Waldman and Chabon were driving in Los Angeles, they saw a man who seemed to be threatening a woman by the side of the road. (Missoulian, MT)
Ayelet Waldman: Bad Mother May 9, 2009
It didn't help that her husband was novelist Michael Chabon beloved, actually, by many. She was branded a Bad Mother. (Time.com)
Newsweek: A 'Trek' writer spills show secrets May 9, 2009
Of course, the "" franchise has become famous for its obsessive fans, including reputedly sophisticated people such as Apple cofounder Stephen Wozniak, Pulitzer Prizewinning writer Michael Chabon and physicist (and my sometime coauthor) Stephen Hawking, whom I have otherwise known to watch only Marilyn Monroemovies and the BBC news. But now that I was up close and personal with that devotion, I started to wonder: why. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Catching up with ... Ayelet Waldman May 8, 2009
Ayelet Waldman sent shock waves through the mom-o-sphere in 2005 when she wrote an essay saying she loves her husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, more than her children ... Ayelet Waldman Articles Ayelet Waldman sent shock waves through the mom-o-sphere in 2005 when she wrote an essay saying she loves her husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, more than her children. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Essays ask: Why must women be so hard on each other? May 3, 2009
Novelist Ayelet Waldman has degrees from Wesleyan University and Harvard Law School; a career that would-be writers would kill for; four "smart and thoughtful, funny and wise," "creative and very intelligent" children; and a handsome, brilliant, high-earning husband (Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon), who cooks, changes diapers, fixes leaky faucets, and is great in bed. You'd think she would be living happily ever after. (Boston Globe)
'Mysteries of Pittsburgh' Apr 17, 2009
The real puzzlers of Pittsburgh: Why Jon Foster emerged from a field of 60-plus actors to star in "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" and why Michael Chabon allowed his 1988 novel to be changed so much on the way to the screen. Rawson Marshall Thurber has had nothing but kind, loving words for the book that he sheared and shaped into a screenplay and directed here in fall 2006. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Out of touch is just where he likes to be Apr 11, 2009
Based on an early novel by Michael Chabon ( Wonder Boys), it's a coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Great Gatsby and Sophie's Choice: One restless, mid-1980s summer, a naive yearner named Art (Jon Foster) falls under the sway of a glamorous, volatile couple, Jane and Cleveland (Sienna Miller and Sarsgaard). Cleveland, a small-time hood with a motorcycle and rebel hair, is a man of great appetites for short durations. (Globe and Mail)
In 'Mysteries of Pittsburgh,' an attempt at adaptation unravels Apr 10, 2009
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
More News » Mar 27, 2009
Michael Chabon delivers reading in Jack Morton ... Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon's reading in the Jack Morton Auditorium Monday night included pieces ranging from his thoughts on President Obama's election to his own son's circumcision. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
E-mail Oversight Mar 18, 2009
Her assistant sent out an invite but forgot to blind copy everyone - instead, publishing the e-mail addresses of Maya Angelou, Tina Brown, Michael Chabon, Susan Cheever, Judy Collins, Joni Evans, Jane Fonda, James Frey and Min Jin Lee, among others. J 00004000 ong told us the screw-up "is part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.". (New York Post -- Gossip)
Finding material from New Mexico idyll - Antonya Nelson says teaching full-time is best remove to create her art Mar 14, 2009
Nelson s work has long been admired by many of our finest writers Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace (who attended the University of Arizona master of fine arts program with her), Michael Chabon. Her first book, The Expendables, won the Flannery O Connor Award for Short Fiction; she has also won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award, the Rea Award, the O. Henry, the Pushcart, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim. (Missoulian, MT)
Progressive Book Club Chooses Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik as March PBC Pick Mar 5, 2009
The PBC Pick is chosen monthly by Progressive Book Club's Editorial Board, whose distinguished members include Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Barbara Kingsolver, Hendrik Hertzberg, Gail Sheehy, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Podesta and Andy Stern, among more than two dozen prominent authors, journalists, academics and politicos. About Progressive Book Club finds - and promotes - the books that can change our nation by harnessing the power of the Internet to create an important new platform for... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Plot a book club success Mar 3, 2009
The Yiddish Policemen s Union, by Michael Chabon. Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Oscars ... 2010 Mar 1, 2009
She has several films coming soon, according to IMDB.com, including "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" and "Hippie Hippie Shake"; as well as "The Edge of Love" (opening April 3), which she steals from Keira Knightley and Cillian Murphy; and the Michael Chabon adaptation "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh." Her work in "Edge" is a complex mix of salt and sweet. Now if she can only curb her tabloid-fodder behavior for a few minutes, people might notice she can act. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Let's hope the confidence is contagious Feb 10, 2009
Last Thursday, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman -- who have combined on four children, written more than a dozen books and collected one Pulitzer Prize (Chabon's) -- spent more than an hour entertaining 159 women at the Multnomah Athletic Club with tales from their literary marriage. The trappings were almost as impressive as the writers. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
