Michael Chabon Archive
We Read Our Lives Wherever We Can
What happens when you read to manifest, rather than escape, your preoccupations?
“The Fireworks are Fireworks”: Michael Chabon’s Joyful Sentences
Michael Chabon wrote one of my favorite sentences of all time. It’s in a story called “Blumenthal on the Air,” first published in Mademoiselle in 1987 and collected in 1991’s A Model World. I’ve forgotten what “Blumenthal on the Air” is about, but this sentence has stuck with me
The Five Families of Mob Literature
There aren’t many books that are the best. I have favorites; we all do. Awards committees and English departments do. There are classics and The Best American Short Stories and all the rest, but how many books can you say, without second-guessing yourself, without blushing or adding, “I think,”