Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabonis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 May 1963
CountryUnited States of America
taken mean airports
I don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these labels are used to prevent discussion, to prevent a work from being taken seriously as literature. When we say "genre," we generally mean "something crappy," something that would be sold in an airport.
were-meant-to-be world prison
The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.
scary delight scar
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
tuesday reptiles afternoon
Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.
passion alcohol way
The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.
editors phones houdini
To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal . "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.
steps culture devolution
The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward
reviews deep-breath breaths
Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.
couple boys men
[I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.
invisible untouchables felt
Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.
paper salvation said
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.
summer baseball games
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.
imagination imagine i-can
I can imagine anything except having no imagination.
mistake great-love terrible
... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.