Michael Chabon
Autor(a) de The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
About the Author
Michael Chabon was born in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 1963. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in English writing at the University of California at Irvine in 1987. Chabon found success at the age of 24, when William mostrar mais Morrow publishing house offered him $155,000, a near-record sum, for the rights to his first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which was his thesis in graduate school. After The Mysteries of Pittsburgh became a national bestseller, he began writing a series of short stories about a little boy dealing with his parents' divorce. The stories, which in part appeared in The New Yorker and G.Q., were bound together in 1991 into a volume titled A Model World and Other Stories. His other works include Wonder Boys, The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man, Telegraph Avenue, and Pop: Fatherhood in Pieces. In 2001 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. He and Ayelet Waldman are co-editors of, Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation.. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Courtesy of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Séries
Obras por Michael Chabon
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son (2009) 1,364 exemplares
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Editor — 182 exemplares
Star Trek: Picard - Season Two — Creator — 34 exemplares
Summerland / The Yiddish Policeman's Union 25 exemplares
The God of Dark Laughter 11 exemplares
Collected Fiction: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, and Werewolves in Their Youth (2018) 9 exemplares
The Martian Agent: An Interplanetary Romance 6 exemplares
Wonder Boys 3 exemplares
Closing Time mammoth tales 2 exemplares
Along the Frontage Road 2 exemplares
Norse Myths 1 exemplar
The Escapists, Issue 4 1 exemplar
The Hofzinser Club 1 exemplar
The Escapists, Issue 6 1 exemplar
The Escapists, Issue 5 1 exemplar
The Escapists, Issue 3 1 exemplar
The Escapists, Issue 2 1 exemplar
The Escapists, Issue 1 1 exemplar
On Music (in McSweeney's 33 - EGGERS) 1 exemplar
In the Black Mill 1 exemplar
Black Mask Stories 1 exemplar
Associated Works
McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue (2004) — Contribuidor — 1,291 exemplares
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (1998) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 916 exemplares
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories [Oxford World Classics] (1987) — Introdução, algumas edições — 403 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contribuidor — 266 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contribuidor — 265 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Contribuidor — 241 exemplares
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland (2014) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 69 exemplares
Navigating The Golden Compass: Religion, Science & Dæmonology in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (2005) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus (2004) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Kong Unbound: The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plausibility of a Cinematic Legend (2005) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
hebbes — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Steranko arte noir : [del 5 al 14 de julio, 2002, Semana Negra, Gijón, España — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Chabon, Michael
- Outros nomes
- Bach, Leon Chaim
Cohen, Malachi B.
Zorn, August Van - Data de nascimento
- 1963-05-24
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Locais de residência
- Washington, D.C., USA
Berkeley, Californië, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Columbia, Maryland, USA - Educação
- Carnegie Mellon University
University of Pittsburgh (BA | 1984)
University of California, Irvine (MFA | 1987 | Creative Writing) - Ocupações
- Schrijver
Columnist - Relações
- Waldman, Ayelet (Echtgenote)
- Organizações
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Helmerich Award (2008)
O. Henry Award (1999)
Pulitzer Prize (2001)
Nebula Award (2007)
Hugo Award (2008)
Sidewise Award (2008) (mostrar todos 7)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012) - Agente
- Evans, Mary
Membros
Discussions
"Moonglow" by Michael Chabon em 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (Março 2022)
Michael Chabon em Other People's Libraries (Novembro 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "The God of Dark Laughter" by Michael Chabon em The Weird Tradition (Março 2015)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Group Read (May) em 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (Julho 2013)
GROUP READ - Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon em The 12 in 12 Category Challenge (Agosto 2012)
Críticas
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with… por Michael Chabon
Four stars only because it's not 100 percent my kind of perfect book. Everything else about it is five stars. The story, the subject matter, the writing are all worthy of the Pulitzer that it won. One tiny thought is that the giant fancy words he likes to use kept making me stop to look them up, which kind of broke the magical spell of reading. But i guess if you're writing about comic books you have to balance out the subject matter with a big cerebral vocabulary.
In Borges' prologue to The Invention of Morel he wrote about the critical scorn for "the adventure story" which could supposedly afford only "nonexistent or puerile" pleasure to readers. "This was undoubtedly the prevailing opinion in 1880, 1925, and even 1940" (Morel, 5). Michael Chabon seems convinced that the prejudice is still in full effect in 2002. Yet this Thrilling Tales volume he edited for McSweeny's was sufficiently well-received to be reissued as "A Vintage Contemporaries Original" and kept in print thus for decades.
The book contains a wide variety of stories, many of them by authors who have previously held my attention. Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium" had something of the darkly comic vernacular feel of the "David Wong" books by Jason Pargin. "Closing Time" was one of the better Neal Gaiman short stories I've read, and it reminded me a little bit of Arthur Machen. I was entirely unfamiliar with Carol Emshwiller, but her story "The General" was a standout contribution.
Michael Moorcock's piece was a motive for me to pick up the book. It seemed like a mere Sexton Blake pastiche when I first read it, but later I saw how it fit into his Second Ether continuity developed in Fabulous Harbours. That book has its own Sexton Begg (sic) story "Crimson Eyes," set in a London of "the recent future."
The book includes two novellas, the first of which is Dave Eggers' "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly." Like some other stories in this volume, this one showed that an adventure story could be achieved with an exotic setting, while retaining a "literary" focus on character and personal history, and without necessarily becoming plot-forward.
The longest story of the book is Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes," a Phildickian compound of shifting realities, memory, and drug abuse, set in a near-future New York City where a dirty bomb has killed half of the population. It has a healthy dose of mise en abyme and epistemological tension to spare. I liked it very much.
Chabon's own contribution is at the end of the book. It is a steampunk tale set in an 1876 America where the 1776 revolution had failed. Framed as the first chapter of a serial, it promises its next installment in McSweeny's Second Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. But as far as I've been able to find out, no such volume has yet appeared, nor has "The Martian Agent" been continued.
Howard Chaykin was a great pick for an illustrator. He supplied title-page graphics for all the stories except for Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That," which has a full-page illustration by Kent Bash.… (mais)
The book contains a wide variety of stories, many of them by authors who have previously held my attention. Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium" had something of the darkly comic vernacular feel of the "David Wong" books by Jason Pargin. "Closing Time" was one of the better Neal Gaiman short stories I've read, and it reminded me a little bit of Arthur Machen. I was entirely unfamiliar with Carol Emshwiller, but her story "The General" was a standout contribution.
Michael Moorcock's piece was a motive for me to pick up the book. It seemed like a mere Sexton Blake pastiche when I first read it, but later I saw how it fit into his Second Ether continuity developed in Fabulous Harbours. That book has its own Sexton Begg (sic) story "Crimson Eyes," set in a London of "the recent future."
The book includes two novellas, the first of which is Dave Eggers' "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly." Like some other stories in this volume, this one showed that an adventure story could be achieved with an exotic setting, while retaining a "literary" focus on character and personal history, and without necessarily becoming plot-forward.
The longest story of the book is Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes," a Phildickian compound of shifting realities, memory, and drug abuse, set in a near-future New York City where a dirty bomb has killed half of the population. It has a healthy dose of mise en abyme and epistemological tension to spare. I liked it very much.
Chabon's own contribution is at the end of the book. It is a steampunk tale set in an 1876 America where the 1776 revolution had failed. Framed as the first chapter of a serial, it promises its next installment in McSweeny's Second Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. But as far as I've been able to find out, no such volume has yet appeared, nor has "The Martian Agent" been continued.
Howard Chaykin was a great pick for an illustrator. He supplied title-page graphics for all the stories except for Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That," which has a full-page illustration by Kent Bash.… (mais)
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paradoxosalpha | 19 outras críticas | Apr 9, 2024 |
paradoxosalpha | 19 outras críticas | Apr 9, 2024 | 
Read on audio. Chabon put together a collection of various Introductions and Outroductions and Liner Notes that he's written over the years. I usually don't read these, but in this case it was very interesting to get a sense of both him and the various books he was introducing. Not many of which, I have read. From a coffee table book about Wes Anderson, to several graphic novels, Michael Moorcock, Ray Bradbury and several of his books. For the Michael Chabon completist, its a worthy read.
Not my favorite Chabon novel, in fact, it didn't really feel like a Chabon novel compared to the others that I've read and loved. Still had some lovely writing, but I just didn't connect to it in the way I did Kavalier & Clay or The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 75
- Also by
- 54
- Membros
- 62,517
- Popularidade
- #226
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 1,797
- ISBN
- 609
- Línguas
- 23
- Marcado como favorito
- 370
