Michael Chabon

"John Carter": Special Effects Dazzle Amid Action Thrills

A Single Duality

Ed Lee's Booky Wook Not on Art Agnos' List

Things can always get more bizarre. Did we mention this is also a cookbook?​An "instabook" penned by political consultant Enrique Pearce titled The Ed Lee Story: An Unexpected Mayor is now the tome to tote onto Muni (until Michael Chabon craps out another novel). Knocking out 50,000 copies of the ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

Things can always get more bizarre. Did we mention this is also a cookbook?​An "instabook" penned by political consultant Enrique Pearce titled The Ed Lee Story: An Unexpected Mayor is now the tome to tote onto Muni (until Michael Chabon craps out another novel). Knocking out 50,000 copies of the ... More >>

In Print: Zoe Keating's Tech-Fueled Cello Explorations, the Beautifully Stoned Noise of Young Prisms, and More

​Zoe Keating: "The technology creates this little box that you're always pushing against the edges of," she says. "I find it really good to have these limitations of [recording] latency or RAM or even frustration -- all those things are annoying, but they actually create the music." This goes ... More >>

Turns Out Michael Chabon Is a Huge Hip-Hop Nerd

MIchael Chabon, wishing he was bangin' some Wu-Tang​If you haven't been obsessively up to date with the world of Internet news, Bay Area author Michael Chabon has been guest editing the culture section of The Atlantic's culture blog this week. The nifty gig also revealed perhaps one of the lesser ... More >>

Berkeley Writer Ayelet Waldman's Red Hook Road Inspired By Bach, Steve Reich

Jennifer ChaneyAyelet Waldman​New York Times best-selling author and Berkeley resident Ayelet Waldman released a new book today called Red Hook Road. She and her husband, Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, have been called "a famous- ... More >>

What To Do? Wednesday's Pick: Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman

​Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman @ Booksmith Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are getting a sitter, for in a surprising and heartening move they appear together tonight. It should make for an interesting dynamic: We know Waldman's fans will be eyeing Chabon, going mmmm-hmmm, because of some of ... More >>

Hopelessly Devoted

​Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman @ Booksmith Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are getting a sitter, for in a surprising and heartening move they appear together tonight. It should make for an interesting dynamic: We know Waldman's fans will be eyeing Chabon, going mmmm-hmmm, because of some of ... More >>

June Book Events: Ayelet Waldman, Barry Gifford, Alice Waters, and more

​Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman @ Booksmith Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are getting a sitter, for in a surprising and heartening move they appear together tonight. It should make for an interesting dynamic: We know Waldman's fans will be eyeing Chabon, going mmmm-hmmm, because of some of ... More >>

The Parent Trap

​Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman @ Booksmith Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are getting a sitter, for in a surprising and heartening move they appear together tonight. It should make for an interesting dynamic: We know Waldman's fans will be eyeing Chabon, going mmmm-hmmm, because of some of ... More >>

Upcoming Lit Events

Michael Chabon talks to Richard Price. Plus: Jeff Jarvis, Peter Singer, Tim Wise, and Tobias Wolff

Andrew Sean Greer

Michael Chabon talks to Richard Price. Plus: Jeff Jarvis, Peter Singer, Tim Wise, and Tobias Wolff

November Book Events

Michael Chabon talks to Richard Price. Plus: Jeff Jarvis, Peter Singer, Tim Wise, and Tobias Wolff

Comix Couture 101

Michael Chabon talks to Richard Price. Plus: Jeff Jarvis, Peter Singer, Tim Wise, and Tobias Wolff

Bookish Behavior

Michael Chabon talks to Richard Price. Plus: Jeff Jarvis, Peter Singer, Tim Wise, and Tobias Wolff

Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life

Michael Chabon talks to Richard Price. Plus: Jeff Jarvis, Peter Singer, Tim Wise, and Tobias Wolff

The Yiddish Policemans Union

Michael Chabon talks to Richard Price. Plus: Jeff Jarvis, Peter Singer, Tim Wise, and Tobias Wolff

Back on Track

Michael Chabon talks to Richard Price. Plus: Jeff Jarvis, Peter Singer, Tim Wise, and Tobias Wolff

Clay Feet

A new version of the homemade-monster legend feels unfinished

Mad Doodling

A comic gross-out

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

A comic gross-out

Misc. Reviews

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This Week: The Dick Cavett Show -- Rock Icons DVD.

Jazz Attack

Bop returns to the Fillmore

Run, Do Not Crawl

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Summer Film Previews

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Culture Lag

Art appreciation after closing time

Words Into Type

Jim Parkinson designs the letters that let you read

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Jim Parkinson designs the letters that let you read

Best Literary Readings

A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books

Best Marching Band

Extra Action Marching Band

Tales of the City

Shaking up the local book scene at Litquake and Green Apple Books' 35th birthday party

The Man of Ink

Creator of Wonder Boys and supermen, Michael Chabon is a literary hero