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Mark Twain's Last Stuntnew

Suppressed for one hundred years, Autobiography of Mark Twain has become one of UC Berkeley's biggest literary events of all time.
East Bay Express  |  David Downs  |  10-20-2010  |  Books

Ten Years of Pulitzer Prize Winners, And What They Say About Usnew

We are a nation of many religions and races, but we're only recently comfortable with that (and sometimes, not so much). We are serious and sober and value hard work, but we also like comic books. At the end of the day, all we'd like to do is go home and have a slice of pie.
Weekly Alibi  |  Erin Adair-Hodges  |  01-12-2010  |  Books

Michael Chabon Discusses Children and Popular Culturenew

Chabon is the jack-of-all-trades of contemporary literature. His literate, humorous, elegiac books include everything from a Pulitzer Prize winner about comic book creators to an alternate-world mystery in a Jewish free state. Now he's got a new collection of essays, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son.
INDY Week  |  Zack Smith  |  10-30-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Michael Chabon Examines the Marginsnew

Chabon chose the dynamic, in-between spaces as the subject of his first nonfiction essay collection, Maps and Legends.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Heather Harris  |  07-29-2008  |  Nonfiction

Michael Chabon Fills in the Blank Spacesnew

Maps and Legends, Chabon's first essay collection, unearths some of the author's source texts and offers his exuberant ruminations on the role of the writer as protector and defender of artistic ancestors.
Los Angeles CityBeat  |  Anthony Miller  |  05-12-2008  |  Nonfiction

Pulitzer Prize Winner Michael Chabon Releases a Rogue's Talenew

The swashbuckling adventure first appeared in serial form in the New York Times Magazine last year, but now this gloriously bound version, features superbly detailed black-and-white pen drawings by comic book artist Gary Gianni.
NOW Magazine  |  Joseph Wilson  |  04-11-2008  |  Fiction

Michael Chabon Doles Out Wisecracking Oddnessnew

There's all manner of weirdness flavoring The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
The Georgia Straight  |  John Burns  |  05-11-2007  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

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