Michael Chabon. I loved Kavalier and Clay, I loved Yiddish Policemen’s Union (being released in paperback on Tuesday!), and I am absolutely knocked out by Gentlemen of the Road. It’s just beautifully written, succinct, elegant, witty, and a great story. I also adored the Tristram Shandy-style chapter titles, viz.:
Chapter Nine
On Anxieties Arising from the Impermissibility, However Unreasonable, of an Elephant’s Rounding Out a Prayer Quorum
Tell me that you can read that without wanting to read the chapter! The book is also a lovely object: the paper is handsome, and the page headers and page numbers are printed in a lovely rubric red.
For more Michael Chabon, you might enjoy his piece from the New Yorker: Secret Skin: An essay in unitard theory, whether or not you’ve heretofore concerned yourself with superhero costumes.
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