Michael Chabon - Berkeley Seminars In Modern Jewish Culture
Speaker: Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon is the author of the novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. He is also the author of two collections of short stories, a number-one bestselling young adult novel, Summerland, and a number of screenplays and teleplays. Chabon lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His newest book, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, was published in 2009.
Moderator: Robert Alter, Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program
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Fifty years ago this Fall a small press in Kyoto, Japan published an English language book of poems, Riprap, by an unknown, first-time poet and UC Berkeley graduate student, Gary Snyder. It was, along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, one of the books that launched the Beat Generation. It was also the most important book of American nature writing since John Muir's The Mountains of California in 1890, a pioneering work in the brief history of the American Buddhist sensibility, and a set of poems that combined freedom and elegance in a way that opened up new pathways in modern poetry. Join us in celebrating this landmark in American literature and in the cultural life of California.
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