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  1. May 20, 2024 · Michael Chabon, American novelist and essayist known for his elegant deployment of figurative language and adventurous experiments with genre conceits. His narratives were frequently suffused with references to world mythology and to his own Jewish heritage. Learn more about Chabon’s life and works.

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  2. May 9, 2024 · Author and screenwriter Michael Chabon merges a lyric approach with identity and complex themes. Chabon’s roots go back to his early life in Washington, DC, as the son of lawyer parents. He experienced change early when his parents divorced at age 11.

  3. May 23, 2024 · michael.chabon. May 14, 2024 at 1:43 PM. Sans Parents, a UK-based artist, composed and performed this beautiful piece, “The Clearing,” inspired by two scenes in Moonglow. They couldn’t have known, but that scene in the clearing is my favorite, and in my view the heart of the book.

  4. May 15, 2024 · michael.chabon. May 15, 2024 at 12:23 PM. 🧵 As a juror for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. I read tons of novels & story collections (well, 100s of lbs of them, anyway). Beyond the winner and 2 runners-up, I want to shine a light on three excellent books, among the many nominees I deeply dug, by less well-known, less heralded writers.

  5. May 7, 2024 · Michael Chabon, author of this year's One Book, One Chicago selection, was born in 1963 in Washington, D.C., and raised in Columbia, Maryland. He studied at Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh and received a master of fine arts in creative writing at U.C. Irvine.

  6. May 15, 2024 · Pulitzer Prize in Fiction juror Michael Chabon recommended three non-winning books that he “deeply dug”: The Ice Harp (Norman Lock), After World (Debbie Urbanski), and Dearborn (Ghassan Zeinnedine).

  7. May 20, 2024 · Admirals by Michael Chabon, 1987. The magic trick: A child painfully aware of the subtext, while the father remains too self-absorbed to notice. Very early Michael Chabon. It’s maybe not the most original story ever written – planted firmly in the “a difficult childhood remembered’ genre. But it’s very good at what it’s doing.

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