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...Michael Chabon...
...this delicious collection of personality flaws, twentysomething sophomore author Michael Chabon contructs a wildly comic, manically paced novel, combining slapstick comedy and a clever satire of academia with an ongoing meditation on the peculiar life of the writer. Chabon's light touch allows him to present the most absurd situations, and the most open sentimentality, without a trace of awkwardness...
...Michael Chabon's likable first novel, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" -- a lighthearted account of a young man growing up gay -- was received with glad cries that still reverberated when his short story collection, "A Model World," appeared. And then? Well, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. "Wonder Boys" (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel that character Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. TIME critic John Skow pans Wonder Boys as a "series of funny scenes about not writing...
...Michael Chabon...
There was an appealing, puppy-dog quality to Michael Chabon's very youthful first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; and in this likable second book of fiction, the strongest impression is still of a healthy new talent clowning around and delighting itself. The stories for the most part are unserious to the point of being silly. In the title piece a grad student cheerfully and successfully plagiarizes an old doctoral dissertation about climatology in Antarctica. That has little to do with a strange dinner party that is suffused with adulterous currents leading nowhere, and that at any rate seems...