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For those of you who would like to see and hear some authors describe their works and what makes them tick. I thought that I would open up a folder to add threads which pertain to writers who folks here may be interested in. I will let them explain.

Here is a set of threads which will be dedicated to listening to authors describe their works, themselves, what makes them tick, books they care about and/or made a difference in their lives etc. For these threads, I will try to find video presentations and watchable interviews.

This thread is dedicated to authors whose last name begins with C.

There is no self promotion on any of these threads

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon (pronounced /ˈʃeɪbɒn/ SHAY-bon;[4] born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation", according to The Virginia Quarterly Review.

Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25 and catapulted him to literary celebrity. He followed it with a second novel, Wonder Boys (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a critically acclaimed novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus;[6] it received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 (see: 2001 in literature). His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 to enthusiastic reviews and won the Hugo, Sidewise, and Nebula awards;[7][8][9] his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of that same year.

His work is characterized by complex language, the frequent use of metaphor along with recurring themes, including nostalgia, divorce, abandonment, fatherhood, and issues of Jewish identity.

Since the late 1990s, Chabon has written in an increasingly diverse series of styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction, and, along with novels, he has published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper serials

Source: Wikipedia

Barnes and Noble Video Presentation with Michael Chabon regarding his book The Yiddish Policeman's Union

by Michael Chabon

Here is the presentation link:



This book is an alternate history mystery of sorts as if the Slattery Report was adoped by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Sitka, Alaska was used as a settlement location for the Jewish people instead of Israel.



Q&A with Michael Chabon:

Story Hour in the Library:(Michael Chabon will be presenting - although there is a tribute to Oakley Hall at the beginning)



He is reading and discussing:

by Michael Chabon

Brief Synopsis:

Gentlemen of the Road is a 2007 serial novel by American author Michael Chabon. It is a "swashbuckling adventure"[1] set in the kaganate of Khazaria (now southwest Russia) around AD 950. It follows two Jewish bandits who become embroiled in a rebellion and a plot to restore a displaced Khazar prince to the throne.