Read excerpts from michael chabons telegraph avenue kqed. The result is moving, dreamy, and deeply lucid, a book whose pages fall away as quickly as the eye can scan them. Coronavirus crisis spurs access to online treatment for opioid addiction npr apr 20. Michael chabon is an american author born on 24th may 1963 in washington d. From michael chabon, noir and niftorim in the north. Michael chabon blurs fiction and memoir in moonglow. December 20, 2004 pulitzer prizewinning author michael chabons new book follows the sleuthing adventures of. The amazing adventures of michael chabon s sortofgrandpa in moonglow moonglow is a playful, fictional take on the family memoir. Michael chabon is the bestselling and pulitzer prizewinning author of the mysteries of pittsburgh, a model world, wonder boys, werewolves in their youth, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, the final solution, the yiddish policemens union, maps and legends, gentlemen of the road, and the middle grade book summerland. We will send you one email a month notifying you of any hot new books announced or coming out, as well as any new additions to the site. Michael chabon tries hard to be a good dad the new york. Michael chabon s moonglow shines with insight and fantastic storytelling fresh air november 23, 2016 chabon s new novel is a collection of stories in which a dying grandfather tells the.
Author michael chabon hear the fresh air program for may 21, 2018. I must admit, up front, that ive never read a book by this author. That is not to say i dont have his books sitting on my shelves, or loaded onto my kindle, because i do. On what manhood means the pulitzer prizewinning novelist opens up about his experiences as a father to four children and husband to writer ayelet waldman in his book of personal. Moonglow by michael chabon is a 2016 harper publication. Clay, never thought hed use his time with his dying grandfather in a book. Wonder boys, by michael chabon its literary awards season. Id like you to read the opening of one of the chapters from your new book, manhood for amateurs. In the book, thats also where two couples nat and aviva, who are.
Chabon marries the imminent and pleasurable readability of his wonder boys with a new formal maturity that lacks the cloying paeans to nerd culture that sometimes mar his telegraph avenue. Moonglow book palo alto city library bibliocommons. Moonglow by michael chabon overdrive rakuten overdrive. Following on the heels of his new york times bestselling novel telegraph avenue, pulitzer prizewinning author michael chabon delivers another literary masterpiece. The pleasures and regrets of a husband, father and son, by michael chabon, hardcover, 320 pages, harper, list price. Michael chabons new childrens book writer michael chabons followup to his pulitzer prizewinning book the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, is a childrens fantasy called summerland he. Its called moonglow, and its loosely based on his grandfathers life. Without the random there can be no new thing bookworm apr 2. Michael chabon on manhood for amateurs author michael chabon has seen manhood from just about every angle as a boy obsessed with comic books, as a husband serving as a surrogate son to his.
Michael chabon s new childrens book writer michael chabon s followup to his pulitzer prizewinning book the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, is a childrens fantasy called summerland he. This is the official facebook page for new york times bestselling and pulitzer prizewinning author, michael chabon. But dilaudid had loosened his tongue, and out came a torrent of remarkable stories of full of secrets, love, pain, sex, and regret. Michael chabons new novel moonglow is a faux memoir. Michael chabons latest novel, telegraph avenue, is named after the famed road between oakland and berkeley in california.
He grew up in columbia, maryland where his parents worked and later after the parents divorced, he was raised up by his mother after his father moved to pittsburgh. This interview originally aired on october 7, 2009. His new book is a collection of personal essays about being a father and a son. The pulitzer winner on americas mercurial new president, why truth is under siege by spurious fact, and his latest book a fictional memoir. Clicking any links beside the book lists will lead you to amazon for more details or to purchase the book. He followed it with wonder boys 1995, and two shortstory collections.
Set in the east bay, chabons new novel, telegraph avenue, deals with issues of race relations and gentrification, and explores the worlds of midwifery and vintage vinyl. In an interview with salon magazine, columbia native and author michael chabon discusses how his new, racially charged novel was, in part, shaped by his upbringing in columbia. Novelist michael chabon opens up about his experiences as a husband and the father of four in his new book of personal essays, manhood for. The novel is set in and around a usedrecord store on the boulevard where oakland aligns with berkeley. In the days following the publication of mysteries of pittsburgh, michael chabon traveled to california to sit by his dying grandfather, a typically taciturn and reserved man. Michael chabon journeys back to telegraph avenue ncpr. Telegraph avenue feels like chabons first book of the new millennium, his first to speak so adroitly to. Pulitzerprize winning novelist michael chabons essays in manhood for amateurs on the realities of coming of age, marriage and fatherhood were originally published in details magazine.
The amazing adventures of michael chabons sortofgrandpa in moonglow moonglow is a playful, fictional take on the family memoir. Michael chabons new book, pops, collects seven essays, each of which shines a light on moments revealing the plight of the modern father. Moonglow, pulitzer prizewinning writer michael chabons new novel, is framed as a memoir in which the narrator, named michael chabon, recounts the life. He has also written for many publications including the new. Novelist michael chabon opens up about his experiences as a husband and the father of four in. Michael chabon, berkeleybased author of the pulitzer prizewinning the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay joins us in the studio. November 19, 2016 michael chabons new novel is based on deathbed. Author michael chabon channels hometown of columbia in new.
Set in 1990, it stars young author mike chabon, whos. Michael chabons new book is described on the title page as a novel, in an authors note as a memoir and in the acknowledgments as a pack of lies. Telegraph avenue, which he discussed on kqed public radios forum show archive here later, is set in a neighborhood that straddles berkeley and oakland, as glen weldons npr. Last year his book wonder boys was adapted into a film starring michael douglas. In michael chabons new book, moonglow, about the lasting effects of the second world war, it is difficult to discern what is autobiographical and what is not. The mysteries of pittsburgh by michael chabon the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay by michael chabon yiddish policemans union by michael chabon manhood for amateurs by michael chabon the astonishing secret of awesome man. Or, without the random there can be no new thing bookworm apr 2. The nobel, the national book awards shortlists, and the man booker prize were all recently announced.
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