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It mystifies me why anyone would write more than two memoirs or thinly veiled novels based on their relatively uninteresting lives. There was another article in the Times about award-winning "American" writers who either live in or are from other countries, and if they're wondering why domestic literature hasn't been very inventive lately, this is it. Winning a Pulitzer does not mean a writer or his/her writer spouse is entitled to share their collective narcisissm with the world.
Maybe it is, in fact, well written, and I guess it sells well, too. I just wonder where a publisher should draw the line. #michaelchabon
10/18/09
It seems like you're denying yourself the pleasure of reading some pretty great literature (IMO) because you don't like the cult of personality around the author.
I've read and enjoyed many authors whose personal lives and views I have found obnoxious or even distasteful. Hemingway, Roth, Mailer, Carver, Bukowski, etc.
If you're squeamish about biographical references, you're probably safe with Kavalier and Clay, since it takes place before Chabon was born. #michaelchabon
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Do you understand that "Stick this up your AlternaAss" is going to be the sulky mantra of every Gawkerite for this week, and for always?
Angry, angry people riding the M train, or pushing their kids Milo and Rumi down Smith Street in the Maclaren, or toiling over stupid screenplays that feature wide-eyed, arty, but ultimately servile (and skinny! so skinny!) girls in them, and/or all the unemployed supercilious toolbags of Meenhattan and elsewhere, all will think, all of our days: Stick this up your AlternaAss, (whomever or whatever is cheesing you off).
Perhaps the Chabon/Waldman kids will revolt, like a four-primate gorilla uprising, and clobber their parents. But it's of no matter to us, because we now have a slogan for our campaign of end-of-days urban antipathy.
God speed, Foster Kamer, and good luck. #michaelchabon
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I'd like something in an easy-care, self-loathing kilim pattern, if you've got it. #michaelchabon
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I think, given the eldest daughter’s name, that you may have passed up a good Sophie’s Choice joke in your final send-off. #michaelchabon
10/18/09
"While she has kept clear of Mr. Chabon’s 2001 Pulitzer-winning "Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," she did recently finish reading "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," Mr. Chabon’s first novel, a coming-of-age story about a bisexual man recently graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where Mr. Chabon himself had just finished when he started writing the book in the spring of 1985.
"She did not enjoy the experience," Mr. Chabon said of his daughter’s read. "She just wasn’t ready to think of me as having ever been young or smoking cigarettes."
Ms. Waldman jumped in: "Or being sexually active, sleeping with men."
"She was not ready to go there," Mr. Chabon said. "I like the fact that the kids are totally uninterested in our work."
They seem to still be talking about Pittsburgh. Ayelet seems to be referring to Michael sleeping with men. Not that it matters, I just didn't know about Chabon's bisexual past. Or am I misreading it? #michaelchabon
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Ayelet, man up and get yourself a sylphlike femme with stick-straight hair to ladylick and get a bit of sexual revenge while you are enjoying your sexual-peak 40s. Also: Perhaps servicing a woman will keep your tongue and mouth so busy that you shall FINALLY SHUT THE FUCK UP.
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Aye! It's a nice name . For an oversharer who's fucking Michael Chabon, in case you hadn't heard.
Edit to add, Trois Filles already has said "eyelet", but with a a delicious Freudian interpretaion of holes, empty spaces on a coat that need to be filled by Chabon's lierary god-button. I love that.