Michael Chabon

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• A very literary, beefed-up newspaper is selling for $16

  
  The Editors' Desk — Authority: 652
  The San Francisco Panorama, a one-time-only, Sunday-style newspaper, went on sale today. It costs $16 online and in book stores. People in the Bay area can buy it for $5 at newsstands, but availability there is limited. The New York Times describes it : The…
  2 days ago

• So…I’m moving.

  
  Bookslide III — Authority: 420
  Yes, part of that is thanks to my financial aid going up and down all term, but it’s also because the house I’m renting is being sold, so…eh. What this means is that I’ll probably end up with sporadic access for the rest of the month. If that’s true, I’ma start recapping offline. I meant to during the ...
  4 days ago

• Two Novelists for the Price of One

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 477
  English majors, get out your first edition books and be ready to salivate, because novelists (and literary power couple) Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are coming to the Berkeley Rep next Monday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. They will be talking with columnist Jon Carroll in a fundraiser for the Park Day School, a ...
  5 days ago

• Good Parent or Smother Mother? Its a Fine Line

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 798
  Filed under: Woman Up , Culture Sandra Tsing Lohs article on motherhood in this months Atlantic has kicked off quite a discussion among my colleagues, Melinda , Lynn , Delia and Lizzie , about what makes a good parent. But, if we could set aside questions of parental quality for just a moment, I want to ...
  6 days ago

• Bad Mother: A discussion with NY Times best-selling author Ayelet Waldman

  
  StarkSilverCreek - All Things West Coast — Authority: 141
  New York-times best selling author Ayelet Waldman sat down to talk with Loni about being a “bad mother,” men, her career as a former public defender and how it influences her writing.StarkSilverCreek Presents – Ayelet WaldmanDownload audio file (sscpresents-24-ayeletwaldman.mp3)Hear about the ...
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• Notebook Covers

  
  Stinkbrown — Authority: 122
  I absolutely cannot get enough of notebooks. Honestly, right now, I have about four of them on the go. They are all for different things, and they all look completely different from one another. Why do I do this? Because I love writing things down, and I love having a little collection of words from a certain period ...
  1 week ago

• Michael Chabon on MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS (Expanded)

  
  Zack Smith: Writer — Authority: 109
  Manhood for Amateurs: MICHAEL CHABON on Life & Pop Culture By Zack Smith posted: 02 December 2009 05:58 pm ET The Pulitzer Prize-winning author discusses his favorite comics, cartoons, DOCTOR WHO and more.  Read the full interview here!
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• Daddies Dearest

  
  NPR Blogs: Blog of the Nation — Authority: 430
  by Barrie Hardymon Theres no weirder feeling reading something you really dig, before you realize it was written by a friend. Given my initially non-biased read, I feel fine plugging Lizzie Skurnicks exploration of celebrity father fetishes -- especially given the fact that it contains laugh-out-loud zingers like ...
  1 week ago

• How Much Does the Modern Father Suck?

  
  The Awl — Authority: 781
  Lizzie Skurnick reads the Foer and the Chabon alike in search of understanding what’s gotten so hideously annoying about modern dads. “Foer’s unhinged screed against the dangers of the modern meat-industrial complex takes ‘me too’ fathering to a new level…. There is nothing wrong with falling into ...
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• McSweeney’s No. 33 Combats Death of Print Journalism

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 477
  Good news for lovers of hard-hitting investigative journalism. The highly anticipated release of  McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern No. 33 will arrive in the form of a 300-page single edition daily newspaper: “ San Francisco Panorama .” Better news for us (broke as hell) Bay Area kiddies: the Quarterly will be ...
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• Manhood for Amateurs – Michael Chabon

  
  BookOffers.com.au — Authority: 144
  Manhood for Amateurs is a shy manifesto; an impractical handbook; the true story of a fabulist; an entire life in parts and pieces: and is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers ...
  2 weeks ago

• Periodical: McSweeney’s

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 128
  Many many years ago, I discovered Might magazine.  It was a funny, silly magazine that spoofed everything (but had a serious backbone, too).  (You can order back issues here ).  And so, I subscribed around issue 13.  When the magazine folded (with issue 16–and you can read a little bit about that in the intro ...
  2 weeks ago

• Argyleman !

  
  The Ephemerist — Authority: 575
  Mark Newport is a visual artist who likes to work with knitting techniques, either during performances, or in finished pieces like these super-heroes winter outfits.  I love the Argyleman costume.  Be sure to check out Newport’s website, with more examples (including a quite convincing version of Michael ...
  2 weeks ago

• Home is where the literature is?

  
  Yatterings — Authority: 112
  I read Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union (Fourth Estate, London 2007) which I’ve had on the reading pile since it came out. There are many elements that I perhaps don’t understand or see yet but the abiding reference is where Bina compares life to the cartoon characters running in the air whilst ...
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• "We are accustomed to repeating the cliche, and to believing, that ‘our most precious resource..."

  
  Bunker Complex — Authority: 561
  “We are accustomed to repeating the cliche, and to believing, that ‘our most precious resource is our children.’ But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is of practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, ...
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• Chabon Scripted 20,000 Leagues Shelved

  
  The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay — Authority: 92
  Walt Disney has pulled the plug on a $150 million remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea after only recently bringing Michael Chabon on board to rewrite the script, according to the Los Angeles Times . The decision came from new Disney Studios chief Rich Ross less than four months before the movie was to begin ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bay Area Literary Tidbits

  
  Ghost Word — Authority: 112
  San Francisco writer T.J. Stiles won the National Book Award  in Nonfiction Wednesday night for his biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Siles, who lives in the Presidio with his wife and son, wrote The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt after completing a book about Jesse James. He talks ...
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• "If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed..."

  
  Bunker Complex — Authority: 561
  “If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it’s too late!” - Michael Chabon ( Manhood for Amateurs: The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Disney Drains McGs 20,000 Leagues Remake

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  Walt Disney Studios has halted production on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo , an expensive remake that was to be directed by McG ( Terminator Salvation ). Following the Monday meeting, McG withdrew from the origin story to focus on other projects like Dead Spy Running and the musical Spring ...
  3 weeks ago

• On Liking what you Like when you Like it: Or, why Art needs a dose of Literature sometimes

  
  Unedit my heart — Authority: 422
  The longer I write journalistic art criticism, the more apparent it becomes to me that our response to art is often be highly temporal and situational—that is, we like what we like when we like it. Responses to, engagement with and affection for a given artwork are highly subject to change over time. I mention this ...
  3 weeks ago

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