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...into its orbit. Fans can go crazy trying to find them all, from the venerable Will Eisner (who was previewing his latest book "Fagin the Jew") to Harvey Pekar (stumping for the "American Splendor" movie) to Alex Ross (previewing the new hardcover of his painted superhero art) to Michael Chabon (previewing his comic "The Escapist," based on the character in "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.") The number of creators easily reached several thousand. Marvel Comics, perhaps demonstrating just how much their comics have become a loss leader for the movie franchises, and how little they care for comicbook...
...this Chicago night, four suburban mothers sip white wine and Diet Coke while dissecting Michael Chabon's latest best seller. This could be any women's book group, save for the four boys, ages 11 to 14, who keep scarfing popcorn, cracking jokes and voicing their comments about Summerland, Chabon's highly touted children's novel. When the moms admit some confusion over Chabon's mystical baseball epic, Mason Marshall, 14, comes to their rescue. "A lot of it was mythology, Norse mythology and Indian mythology," he explains through a mouthful of popcorn...
What follows is an acute examination of amateur justice and its unintended results. If Friend suffers by comparison to History, it is in its familiar eccentric aunts and faded gentry, who infest Southern literature like kudzu. But Harriet is an original. While grownups like Michael Chabon are moonlighting as kids' writers, Tartt has written a grownup book that captures the dark, Lord of the Flies side of childhood and classic children's literature. Harriet is a child, not a pint-size adult or supergirl. (She's Harriet, not Harriet the Spy.) She is smart but not wise, naive...
Your story on novelists who are writing fiction for older kids and teens [Books, Sept. 23] quoted author Michael Chabon as saying that "you have to sell adult readers on fantasy. Kids just accept it." If Chabon is right, then explain to me why I, a middle-aged adult, have read the Harry Potter books five times each! MARIANNE L. ADAMS Diamond Bar, Calif...
...many writers going to kids' books these days, the Harry pot of gold may be reason enough to go. But children's literature, with its freedom from the constraints of reality, was a natural place for Chabon to turn. Tom Wolfe may think that the 19th century social novel is the only true model for fiction these days, but Chabon has other ideas. For one thing, he wants literary fiction to enjoy the liberties of fantasy genres like science fiction or horror. His next novel will be about a detective in an alternative present day in which the Jewish state...