With just three novels and two short story collections to his name, Michael Chabon has become one of the preeminent literary authors of his generation. Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his novel...
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Few contemporary American fiction writers begin their literary careers with such public notoriety as Michael Chabon gained with his best-selling first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which ...
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In the following review of A Model World, Montrose finds Chabon's short fiction well composed but unexceptional.
Over recent years, certain hypesters in American publishing have managed to p...
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In the following review, Tallent offers a positive assessment of A Model World.
Michael Chabon writes a prose so engaging—so rapid, graceful, allusive, and resourceful—that its reader...
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In the following review, Herold offers a favorable assessment of A Model World and Other Stories.
You might think that Michael Chabon is simply trying to twist your tongue when he writes sentences ...
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In the following excerpt, Johnson offers a mixed assessment of A Model World, calling the short story collection an “immensely promising and curiously disappointing book.”
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In the following essay, Fowler examines Chabon's prose style in the collection A Model World and Other Stories as well as his portrayal of adolescent love, loss, and disillusionment.
The hea...
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In the following review, the critic applauds the stories of A Model World for their subtle irony, vivid characters, and effective understatement.
An exceptional collection of short stories [A Model...
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In the following review of A Model World, Callahan praises Chabon for his delightful characters, light irony, and well-crafted prose.
Originally published in The New Yorker and other magazines, the...
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In the following excerpt, Johnson finds A Model World to be “at once an immensely promising and curiously disappointing book.”
Jane Austen declared that there were only two things wor...
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In the following essay, Fowler discusses the themes of memory, nostalgia, and family in Chabon's short stories.
The heavy burden of the growing soul Perplexes and offends more, day by day; W...
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In the following review of A Model World, Henderson asserts that Chabon is one of the best young American fiction writers today.
This collection of 11 stories [A Model World] by the author of the w...
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In the following review of A Model World, Frank maintains that Chabon's prose is “technically terrific,” but that his stories are narrow in scope and not very interesting.
One ...
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In the following review, Cryer calls Chabon a gifted young writer, and applauds his fresh style, lyrical use of language, unexpected plot twists, and sense of humor in A Model World.
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In the following mixed review of A Model World, Gilbert contrasts the stories in the first half of the book to those stories in the “The Lost World” section.
Late, late, late adolesce...
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In the following review, Montrose asserts that although the stories in A Model World are flawed, the volume should be regarded as an early work by a promising young author.
Over recent years, certa...
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In the following favorable review, Gowen considers the role of nostalgia in A Model World.
Early on in one of Michael Chabon's stories, young Nathan Shapiro finds himself in the middle of wh...
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In the following review, Younson contends that the stories in A Model World are insightful, charming, sensitive, and thoughtful.
Michael Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, in...
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In the following review of A Model World, Tallent regards Chabon's stories as inventive, insightful, and engaging.
Michael Chabon writes a prose so engaging—so rapid, graceful, allusi...
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“It’d be like calling Groucho Marx anti-mustache,†the best-selling author Michael Chabon said of recent criticism in the New York Post that he an...
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Should Christopher Hitchens win a National Book Award, you can be sure he won't thank any higher powers.The author, columnist and commentator was nominated for "God Is Not Great," a polemic with a ...
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THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNIONBy Michael Chabon HarperCollins, 414 pages, $26.95
I’m not wild about hardboiled detective fiction. Raymond Chandler may paint a gritt...
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Manhattan declared war on Brooklyn on Sept. 16, and the first casualties are Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss. Writing in The American Scholar (www.theamericanscholar.org), Melvin Jules Bukie...
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WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERSFICTION1. "Simple Genius" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)2. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)3. "The Children of Hurin" ...
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Author Jonathan Lethem was a big fan of the comic "Omega the Unknown" when he was a boy growing up in Brooklyn, and he was pretty depressed when the superhero vanished from corner store shelves.Nev...
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The name Ayelet, as in Ayelet Waldman, has become something of an epithet on the fabulously acerbic, anonymous, Gotham-centric Internet chat board Urbanbaby.com. “But who is Ayelet?” so...
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The name Ayelet, as in Ayelet Waldman, has become something of an epithet on the fabulously acerbic, anonymous, Gotham-centric Internet chat board Urbanbaby.com. “But who is Ayelet?” so...
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WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERSFICTION1. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Hardcover)2. "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson (Little, ...
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There are few things Stephen King hasn't tried when it comes to his work. He's already the master of horror fiction, a tour guide through disturbing and fantastical worlds, a writing coach, a nonfi...
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Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
Critical Review by David Montrose
At Celebration, Chabon Confounded By Chauvinism Charges\'d1And Hey, Where Was Wacky Wife Ayelet?
