Love this. A great treatise on parenting and fashion. I love Chabon's work, and we're actually distantly related! Third cousins or something
i've never actually met him but my dad has zero shame about reaching out to people we're distantly related to and going to their fuckin ass family reunions in Louisiana or some shit (true story -- he hated it and we knew he was gonna hate it but he did it for the vine), so it's entirely possible he reached out to him at some point. probably got booted to a spam folder tbh
I started the article thinking it was self-indulgent; a kind of "look everyone, at my eccentric son" humblebrag. I continued reading anyway: I moved to Paris in June, and it painted a perfect picture of the sweaty summer city. And then I got to the end of the article, and it was beautiful and my heart broke a little (in the best possible way). Also: that family has some amazing eye genetics.
Yes. I must give his fiction another try. I've never quite managed to get into his novel (s?).
My goodness. I know this is annoying and a bit overbearing, but Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is one of my favorite novels. Give it a(nother) go. And report back!
will do! I remember really enjoying his sentences. I think what put me off at the time was that I was feeling saturated with comic book-referencing art, and I turned into a great big prejudiced snobface. I'll definitely give it another go, once I've finished my current read (Purity by Jonathan Franzen). :)
Have you read Freedom? That's the only Franzen I've read but loved it. Love Kavalier and Clay, trying to finally work through Yiddish Policeman's Union which I've started multiple times but haven't had real reading time to work on it.