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Meet the Author: Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. His many other works include the novels The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys, Werewolves In Their Youth. He is currently working on a new novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, for publication in the fall 2005 and resides in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.
Q&A with Michael Chabon
Q: What do you think of being called a "young star of American letters?"
A: Well, I thought it was all right, back when I was young. Now I am a very old man, as my children never tire of reminding me.
Q: Describe your use of language, and how it meshes with the story?
A: I would describe my use of language as passionate, calculated,
self-conscious, intuitive, novel and traditional. I don't think of it so much as meshing with the story; it is the story. A story is always, in part, the way a story is told.
Q: What's your feeling about the unfinished Fountain City? Does it linger as a project that needs finishing?
A: I have fond and bitter memories of it. I would like to revisit it
someday as an exercise in figuring out what really went wrong...
Q: Because most of your writing can be described as literary fiction, was writing Summerland - for a different audience (young adults) or in a different genre (fantasy) - more liberating?
A: Honestly, to me Summerland was just another one of my books. Writing it felt very much like writing all the others.
Q: Do you have plans to write other books for children or young adults?
A: Yes, I do. At least two more. The next one will be some kind of
variation on the classic 'boy detective' character of the Encyclopedia
Brown type.
Interview Date: July 2004
Profile and questions compiled by James Kelly, North County Regional Library & Ed McDonald, Main Library
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