Tonight
At Temple De Hirsch Sinai
THE KELLER FAMILY LECTURE SERIES
Graciously underwritten by Frances and Howard Keller
MICHAEL CHABON
Monday, January 14, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Seattle
Bestselling author of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and the soon to be released Gentlemen of the Road will speak on the tradition of Jewish fiction and contemporary Jewish writing. Temple will be reading Gentlemen of the Road as our Temple wide book group.
Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation." His first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when Chabon was 25 and catapulted him to the status of 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 The New York Review of Books called his magnum opus; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His latest novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, was published in 2007 to enthusiastic reviews.
His work is characterized by complex language, frequent use of metaphor, and an extensive vocabulary, along with numerous recurring themes, including nostalgia, divorce, abandonment, fatherhood, and issues of Jewish identity. He often includes gay, bisexual, and Jewish characters in his work. 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.
THE KELLER FAMILY LECTURE SERIES
Graciously underwritten by Frances and Howard Keller
MICHAEL CHABON
Monday, January 14, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Seattle
Bestselling author of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and the soon to be released Gentlemen of the Road will speak on the tradition of Jewish fiction and contemporary Jewish writing. Temple will be reading Gentlemen of the Road as our Temple wide book group.
Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation." His first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when Chabon was 25 and catapulted him to the status of 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 The New York Review of Books called his magnum opus; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His latest novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, was published in 2007 to enthusiastic reviews.
His work is characterized by complex language, frequent use of metaphor, and an extensive vocabulary, along with numerous recurring themes, including nostalgia, divorce, abandonment, fatherhood, and issues of Jewish identity. He often includes gay, bisexual, and Jewish characters in his work. 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.