THE BEAT (Free subscription) | yesterday
Found via the Del Rey Internet Newsletter: Michael Chabon’s “Dashing Dozen”: 12 favorite works of adventure fiction: CAPTAIN BLOOD, Rafael Sabatini The Kull Stories, Robert E. Howard The Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories, Fritz Leiber AGAINST THE DAY, Thomas Pynchon The Brigadier Gerard stories, Arthur Conan Doyle THE CHINESE BANDIT, Stephen Becker THE ICE SCHOONER, Michael Moorcock THE ENGLISH PATIENT,...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
As much as I've enjoyed some of Chabon's other works, I have to admit I wasn't much taken with this one. It's a novella set in 1944. An aged beekeeper in Sussex is called in to help the hapless police when a parrot disappears and a man is murdered. The parrot is the sole companion of a mute boy whom the beekeeper has met previously, and he agrees to help, but only to reunite the two. While the boy...
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ben Tanzer, Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine Michael Chabon, Maps and Legends Richard Grayson, Highly Irregular Stories Ander Monson, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments Matthew Sharpe, The Sleeping Father
The Obituarium (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
"I think fiction writers tend to be mullers and grudge-holders and slow-burners and people who go over the same incident over and over again wondering what went wrong." --Michael Chabon I'm currently reading Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union and to call it brilliant is not near enough. I've mentioned this before about Chabon: Not only is he a joy to read, he also makes me want to write. I can...
Comic Book Conventions.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Michael Chabon ( The Escapist ) speaks at the University of Kansas on October 27th. Read more...
Torque Control (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
My review of Michael Chabon’s non-fiction collection Maps and Legends is up at Fruitless Recursion: The title of Michael Chabon’s first collection of non-fiction is taken from one of the shortest pieces in the book, a brief essay about growing up in the planned community of Columbia, Maryland in the late sixties and early seventies. [...]
Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Watching the doings in Denver on CSpan, I probably felt the same mixed emotions others were feeling about that odd mixture of genuine political fervor and irritation with the vapid repetitions of worn, "patriotic" phrases. Michael Chabon, writing in the...
Esquire.com (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
These titles were recently published in paperback. Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure (Del Rey; 224 pages; $14) by Michael Chabon: This old-school-style swashbuckling quest comes complete with outlandish characters, and the smell of exotic places. Set...
io9 (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
When will "the literary establishment" start taking science fiction more seriously? Everybody from Michael Chabon to David Hartwell wants to know. But would most readers really be happy if science... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
If you want to read Indignation, Philip Roth’s latest novel, you can buy a Kindle edition, not just a paper version. Trouble is, I don’t see one bleepin’ Roth novel available in Amazon’s Mobipocket format. I can read Mobi but not Kindle; eBabel strikes again! Forget about an eReader or PDF version as well, [...]
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
So I'm reading Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys (haven't even seen the film yet, so shhhhh, just a 100 pages in), and I of course know from later work that he's a big genre and comics fan. But here in his first "hit" novel, I think he went a little far with a geeky reference. See if you can spot it: I'm just wondering where Johnny's at. Or is Chabon a HERBIE fan?
Governing.com: 13th Floor (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
posted by Alan Greenblatt In a recent New York Review of Books podcast, novelist Michael Chabon said of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, "I had the sense that things went very, very smoothly, indeed. Some of the credit for...
Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
I recently read this year's Hugo-winning novel, Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union . (Getting it sent to my local branch library from Malmö cost me one euro!) It's a hard-boiled detective story set in an alternative present where Israel was squashed by irate Arab neighbours in 1948 and much of the world's surviving Jewry ended up in a small reservation in south-west Alaska. An exciting...
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Adrian McKinty (right) has his own interweb doohicky, and yet for some reason he insists on sending me top quality material for use on Crime Always Pays. To wit: Alaska Schmalaska In Michael Chabon’s universe, a self-described redneck like Sarah Palin could never have become governor of Alaska. Why? Because in his world Alaska isn’t a frontier bastion for moose-killing survivalists but rather is the...
