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Podcast summary
A shy manifesto and an impractical handbook by one of America's finest writers.
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Participant(s) Bio
Michael Chabon received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at UC Irvine, and has spent most of the past two decades in California. He is the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Other works include a young adult novel, Summerland, and two collections of short stories, A Model World and Other Stories and Werewolves In Their Youth.
www.michaelchabon.com
David L. Ulin is book editor of the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith, and the editor of Another City: Writing from Los Angeles and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, LA Weekly, Los Angeles, and National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
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