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These warm and thoughtful essays underscore just how good a wordsmith Chabon is - regardless of the form he chooses.
Manhood for Amateurs: Summary and book reviews of Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon. 2009
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Chabon is perhaps the most recent example of highly successful writers who ignore genre distinctions.
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Chabon is a certified master of the language, taking the reader on sweeps and bounds through imagery set at a new level: “Thunder harried the building like a hound, brushing its crackling coat against the spandrels and mullions, snuffling all the windowpanes.”
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Michael Chabon is working on the screenplay for John Carter of Mars. [via Chris Roberson and Geeks of Doom]
April 2009 2009
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Chabon is perhaps the most recent example of highly successful writers who ignore genre distinctions.
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Chabon is a certified master of the language, taking the reader on sweeps and bounds through imagery set at a new level: “Thunder harried the building like a hound, brushing its crackling coat against the spandrels and mullions, snuffling all the windowpanes.”
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Michael Chabon is working on the screenplay for John Carter of Mars. [via Chris Roberson and Geeks of Doom]
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I think Chabon is a guy who writes what he wants to write and regardless of where his work is pigeonholed, he's someone who supports the growth of the genre as a respectable form of literature, in it's own right, and not the other way around (see the McSweeney's anthologies he's edited for proof of it).
Why I Stopped Reading: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon 2008
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Obviously, Chabon is here playing with how mainstream American culture has occasionally claimed the value or "authenticity" of indigenous traditions without necessarily reflecting those traditions.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Actually, though, Chabon is talking about his experiences as a Jewish person.
May 18th, 2008 willowfagan 2008
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