Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabonis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 May 1963
CountryUnited States of America
caught comic creating romance
To some of them it had just been work, ... But some got caught up in the romance of creating comic books.
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I'm such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise.
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Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.
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That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.
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I don't think anything else can be hopeful or accomplished if you have the fear that you will get arrested or prosecuted or censored, ... I saw a cry for help. So it was my goal to try to get writers whose work and whose name would be meaningful to the greatest number of people.
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As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.
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Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
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The 'Talk of the Town' was really that in the 1940s: it was all about New York, it was only about New York, and it was about people.
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Did I really win? ... I had kind of figured it was not my year. My goodness, this is exciting.
chosen names remotely winning
The winning names were not even remotely names I would have chosen or invented.
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the right not to use the name if it is offensive, mischievous, ill-intentioned or inappropriate.
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I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.
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I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things I've written which might disappear otherwise.
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Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life.