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Moonglow chabon review5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When I first read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, I felt gobsmacked that anyone would so fearlessly revel in his interest in comics outside of a fan group, and even more so that he spoke openly about Jewish mysticism in the mainstream literary world (which, Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick aside, I understood to be majority goyish). Then, two things happened: Chabon began writing about Jewish subject matter, and he admitted to his inner geekiness. (Generations of writing students have similarly come up short when trying to generate an ending as good as that of Joyce’s short story, “The Dead.”) Wonder Boys was similar, if more madcap. Chabon himself describes his early work as “plotless and sparkling with epiphanic dew,” which sums up many of the short stories that descend from Raymond Carver’s working-class minimalism on one side and James Joyce’s knockout final images on the other. Michael Chabon’s first published works, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and A Model World, were realist, lovely and a little dull with caution. ![]()
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