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May 20, 2024 · He followed with Summerland (2002), an expansive young adult novel that features a hero who must save his father (and the world) from the apocalypse by winning a game of baseball against a cast of tricksters drawn from American folklore.
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May 13, 2024 · I loved Chabon's YA baseball-rooted fantasy Summerland (utterly beyond imagining: read it), but The Yiddish Policemen's Union is transformative fiction, or at least that's how I remember it. Reading it while Israel bombs Gaza into bloody shards is making the novel hit differently, but I'll persist.
May 15, 2024 · 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.
May 12, 2024 · In 2002, Chabon released Summerland, a fantasy book for kids with mixed reviews but high sales. It won the 2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Two years later, he wrote The Final Solution, a short novel about a mystery solved by an elderly man, likely Sherlock Holmes, toward the end of World War II.
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May 7, 2024 · Chabon is also the author of two short story collections, A Model World and Other Stories (1991) and Werewolves in Their Youth (1999). His first young adult novel, Summerland (2002), won the 2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature.
May 9, 2024 · Posted. May 9, 2024. Category. Writing While Black. Tags. writer blog, writer, Jewish, Jewish American Heirage Month, jewish writers. Comments. 0 Responses. 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.
6 days ago · 88. michael.chabon. May 15, 2024 at 12:24 PM. *The Ice Harp*, Norman Lock. A poignant, fascinating, thoroughly convincing, stream-of-consciousness novel about Ralph Waldo Emerson. Part of the author’s ongoing, fascinating “American Novels” sequence. shorturl.at/MPTV0 2/4. shorturl.at.
