Michael Chabon

This Weekend's Kindiefest Plus Conversations With Curtis Stigers and Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Paul O'Neill

Mike Ragogna | Posted 04.25.2012

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Family music has changed much in recent years, with groups representing every possible musical genre (folk, rock, bluegrass, jazz, Latin, Americana, hip-hop, etc) only under the sub-genre of Kindie Rock.

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L!fe Happens at the Atlanta Film Festival

Kat Coiro | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Life Happens, Michael Chabon, Filmmaking, Children, Atlanta, Atlanta Film Festival, Kate Bosworth, Johnny Cash, Arts, Kat Coiro, L!Fe Happens, Fallon Goodson, Krysten Ritter, Culture News

Atlanta was the third city in which I've had the chance to watch my new movie in front of an audience. I sat in the back row and was able to genuinely lose myself in the story for the first time.

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Stuck Writers, Second Novels, and Empty Boats

Andromeda Romano-Lax | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Second Novels, Michael Chabon, Lionel Shriver, Writer's Block, Mark Salzman, Novelists, Writing a Novel, Unfinished Novel, Books News

Between my debut and this book, an entirely different novel and a few other partial manuscripts had languished: unfinished, unloved. No wonder I've always been drawn to stories of other novelists with unpublished or simply abandoned novels.

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3 Renowned Authors Voted Into American Academy of Arts and Letters

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: American Academy of Arts and Letters, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen, Jhumpa Lahiri, American Academy Arts and Letters, Books News

NEW YORK -- Michael Chabon credits his latest honor to the gray in his beard. "I knew that when the gray came in it was only a matter of time before ...

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The Arts Class Of 2012

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.09.2012

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NEW YORK -- Michael Chabon credits his latest honor to the gray in his beard. "I knew that when the gray came in it was only a matter of time before ...

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TV And The Novel: Not-So-Strange Bedfellows

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 12.27.2011

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Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" could be coming to a screen near you. According to Collider, director Stephen Daldry...

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Confirmed: Michael Chabon's Next Book

Posted 12.05.2011

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Michael Chabon's next book, "Telegraph Avenue," is confirmed for release in fall 2012, according to a series of tweets by a division of his publisher,...

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Best Fall Books According To Children

Zoe Triska | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Best Children's Books 2011, Video, Michael Chabon, Reviews, Children's Books, Childrens Books, Book Reviews, Children's Book Reviews, Maurice Sendak, Childrens Book Reviews, Shel Silverstein, Books News

We get a lot of children's books in the mail. This is great, but we're a few decades away from the target demographic. Wouldn't children's book rev...

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Fifteen of This Millennium's Top Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 10.29.2011

These aren't necessarily the best novels of the past 11 years, because there are acclaimed books I've yet to read.

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Joe Simon: Creator Of Captain America and a Living Legend

Bryan Young | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Michael Chabon, Comics, Joe Simon, Romance Comics, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, World War II, Captain America, Newspaper Industry, Books News

With the release of the incredibly well-put together, amazing, thrilling Captain America movie, I think it's time to take a look at one of the unsung heroes of the character. Joe Simon created Captain America and he's a living legend.

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PHOTOS: 10 Uplifting Books For Lonely Souls

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Tom Robbins, Bridget Jones's Diary, Still Life With Woodpecker, A Peoople's History of the United States, Vida, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, David Sedaris, Helen Fielding, High Fidelity, Michael Chabon, Howard Zinn, Nick Hornby, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Paulo Coelho, Uplifting Books, The Alchemist, Diane Ackerman, Books News

In response to Russ Marshalek’s excellent post on devastatingly sad books last week, we’ve decided to try and lift your spirits a little during th...

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PHOTOS: 15 Cool Book Covers That Didn't Make The Cut

nytimes.com | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Michael Chabon, The Social Animal, Madame Bovary, David Brooks, Eating Animals, Zadie Smith, Scott Turow, Cool Book Covers, Manhood for Amateurs, Innocent, James Gleick, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Sedaris, The Information, Books News

For authors, choosing a book cover is the fraught moment their very private creation starts putting on its game face and getting ready to enter the ma...

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Michael Chabon New HBO Project: Magicians Battling Hitler

Variety | CYNTHIA LITTLETON | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scribe Michael Chabon and his wife, author Ayelet Waldman, have set up an offbeat drama project at HBO that revolves around a motley group of conmen a...

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Super Bowl XLV: Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Green Bay

Sue Frause | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Football, Pennsylvania, Nfl, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Super Bowl, Green Bay, Michael Chabon, Big Island on Hawaii, Arlington, Sports News

What I know about the two cities combined could barely fit into a referee's whistle. After doing a little research, here are some facts and trivia about Pittsburgh and Green Bay.

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Michael Chabon On The N-Word In 'Huckleberry Finn'

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Sawyer was bedtime reading for me and my two youngest kids (son and daughter, 7 and 9) at the start of last summer. Of course we all loved it. It ...

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'Impossible Pursuits' on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman

Katie Hafner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Like the protagonist of her 2006 novel, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman is a Jewish redhead who attended Harvard Law School and is ...

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New Yorker Festival 2010 Lineup Announced: Stephen King, Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Eggers

Posted 05.25.2011

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The weekend of October 1st is going to be very busy in the literary world, as heavy hitters from across all book genres are slated to appear at the 11...

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Free Flick Fridays: Wonder Boys

Tribeca Film | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Holmes, Michael Chabon, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, Curtis Hanson, Wonder Boys, Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas, Tomkat, Entertainment News

Adapted from the very funny Michael Chabon novel, Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys is a marvel of a film, a sharp and wise valentine to academia and the literary life.

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Voice in Fiction: A Favorite MFA/Writing Program Shibboleth

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Writing Instruction, Salman Rushdie, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, L.A. Times Festival of Books, Creative Writing, Characterization in Writing, Junot Diaz, George Orwell, Plot in Writing, Voice in Fiction, Mfa Programs, Michael Chabon, Chang-Rae Lee, Style in Writing, Dave Eggers, James Joyce, Antonya Nelson, Writing Technique, Books News

I hope I never see the day when I've found my voice. How is it possible to ever find your voice? Voice is mystical. It puts the writer on a pedestal. No writer worth his salt ought to want that.

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Many Are 'Chosen People' -- And a Few Even Know What It Means

Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011

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Were I to teach my children that Jews are smarter than non-Jews, I would not only teach prejudice, but I would also fail to impart how important it is that the God of Genesis made the world various.

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The Real Myth -- and Gift -- of Jewish Chosenness

Amy Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish Culture, Jews, Gaza Blockade, Michael Chabon, Israel, Jewish, Religion News

What people like Michael Chabon fail to understand is that the Jews may or may not be more intellectual than other people, superior, smarter, richer, or have cabals that rule the world. But Jews are best at PR.

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Indies Choice Book Award Finalists Announced

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kate DiCamillo, Independent Bookstores, A.S. Byatt, Literary Prizes, Colm Toibin, Wolf Hall, BookExpo America, Michael Chabon, Stitches, Isabel Allende, Libba Bray, The Children's Book, Best Books, Books, Indies Choice Awards, Aba, Mary Karr, Books News

The ABA (American Booksellers Association) announced the finalists for the Indies Choice Book Awards on Monday, which are chosen by any and all indepe...

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Michael Chabon Geeks Out About Genres

io9 | Charlie Jane Anders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Chabon Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon, New Michael Chabon, Authors, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Author Interviews, Books, Manhood for Amateurs, Books News

Michael Chabon's celebrated science fiction and geeky pop culture, and his latest book Manhood For Amateurs is a love letter to fandom. So when we man...

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Best Books Of The Decade: The Boston Globe Weighs In

Boston Globe | Nicole Lamy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jumpa Lahiri, Bestsellers, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Chabon, Michael Pollan, Best Books, Genocide, Harry Potter, Dave Eggers, Omnivore's Dilemma, White Teeth, Books News

Harry Potter did not make my list. There. I said it. I read every last one of the wizard's adventures, I swear, but now the whole experience is kind o...

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9 Of Your Favorite Books: Huffington Post November Readers' Picks (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Ever since we posted our first installment of the HuffPost Readers' Picks, we've gotten a flood of further reader recommendations. The feature has bee...

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