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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon stories: 4 news summaries
BOOK REVIEW

 Guys, Take a Page 
 From Chabon's 
 Manhood for 
 Amateurs 

Michael Chabon's essays on fatherhood, manhood paint him as quite a catch

Oct 7, 09 1:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Chabon throws his voice into the widening pool of “daddy diaries” with Manhood for Amateurs, which offers “poignant meditations on manhood, fatherhood, and aspects of his own childhood.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning author emerges from the essays “as a prince among men,” writes Heller... More »

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fatherhood • parenting • father • book • essay • Michael Chabon • Jay-ZTV • fathers • Ayelet Waldman

 White House Jams 
 to Spoken Word 

Theater, jazz, poetry collide in East Room event

May 13, 09 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spoken word, jazz, and theater took the White House by storm last night in what has been called the first presidential poetry jam, the Washington Post reports. “We're here to celebrate the power of words,” President Obama said, adding that his wife is his poet. The jam, Michelle... More »

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entertainment • music • theater • Michelle Obama • poetry • jazz • William Shakespeare • President Obama • Michael Chabon • Jay-ZTV • poetry slam • James Earl Jones • spoken word

At House Tonight / Obamas Plan / First-Ever Poetry Slam

Mayda Del Valle, ELEW among invitees

May 12, 09 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Check off another campaign promise. President Obama is hosting the White House’s first-ever poetry slam, part of his vow to open up “the people's house” to artists, WNBC-TV reports. The 100 guests include actor James Earl Jones, writer Michael Chabon, jazz musician Esperanza Spalding, and playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda.... More »

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entertainment • Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • White House • literature • poetry • President Obama • Michael Chabon • Jay-ZTV • poetry slam • James Earl Jones • Esperanza Spalding • Lin-Manuel Miranda

GLOSSIES

Young Jewish Writers Cool With Being Jewish

alt hed: 'New Yiddishists' Bring Ethnic Pride to the Page

Apr 9, 09 12:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - America’s young Jewish writers are “turning the narrative of assimilation on its head,” writes Daniel Sax in Vanity Fair, and hitting the best-seller list in the process. Unlike Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, who angrily “wrote from experiences directly connected to the traumas of immigration and... More »

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literature • Jonathan Safran Foer • Philip Roth • Jewish • Saul Bellow • Michael Chabon • New Yiddishists

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