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Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon

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May 2, 2022

Suited

Among the many things I took for granted about the publication of my first novel, in 1988, when I was twenty-three and in the business of taking everything for granted, was the question of what to wear when posing for the jacket photo. …

Memoir

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Suited
Suited
Memoir

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May 1, 2022

Remembering Jay Dantry

On Independent Bookstore Day, 4/30/2022 My father and stepmother moved to Pittsburgh around 1976. Soon after that I visited the city for the first time since babyhood (we lived in the North Hills when I was two). My father was and remains a passionate reader and book-buyer and by the…

Independent Bookstore Day

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Remembering Jay Dantry
Remembering Jay Dantry
Independent Bookstore Day

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Mar 10, 2022

Tragic Magic

Reflections On Power Pop Occasioned by the release of Keep Your Eye on the Sky (Rhino Records, 2009). They called themselves Big Star and never made it big or found stardom, and there, along with a 2:49 song called “September Gurls” that shimmers and chimes with all the hopeless longing…

Music

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Music

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Dec 30, 2021

The Sandmeyer Reaction

A deleted sequence from Moonglow, with some notes on its composition and the reason for its deletion. Introduction This is not — surprisingly — an excerpt from my novel Moonglow. That’s surprising to me, at any rate, because the incidents related in “The Sandmeyer Reaction” were central to my idea of…

Moonglow

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The Sandmeyer Reaction
The Sandmeyer Reaction
Moonglow

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Nov 27, 2021

Remembering Stephen Sondheim

I first met Stephen Sondheim at his home in New York City, a few months before I was to hand him the 2013 Edward MacDowell Medal in a ceremony at MacDowell, in Peterborough, NH. I was starstruck and stupefied, that first time; he would have none of it. I desperately…

Stephen Sondheim

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Remembering Stephen Sondheim
Remembering Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim

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May 24, 2021

Lightning Struck Itself: Rock Lyrics as Writing

Blashfield Address, American Academy of Arts & Letters, 2013 — One day in the late spring of 1983, toward the end of my junior year at the University of Pittsburgh, I stopped by during office hours to see my poetry teacher, Ed Ochester, up on the fifth floor of the Cathedral of Learning. I had just been asked to join…

Bob Dylan

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Lightning Struck Itself: Rock Lyrics as Writing
Lightning Struck Itself: Rock Lyrics as Writing
Bob Dylan

13 min read


May 5, 2021

TWO FINAL NOTES ON ROMULANS

NOTE ON NAREK Born into the upper-caste, politically prominent qNaqoan kinship unit in 2364 (Earth reckoning), in the Romulan capital, Ki Baratan. Parents, uncles, aunts, siblings and cousins — up to 270 can live in the most prosperous (or the most impoverished) kinship compounds — all had careers in Romulan…

Narek

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TWO FINAL NOTES ON ROMULANS
TWO FINAL NOTES ON ROMULANS
Narek

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Apr 23, 2021

Apology of a Rudin Apologist

Reading the accounts of Scott Rudin’s present and former employees, of the abuse they suffered and were expected to endure at Scott Rudin Productions, has broken my heart. In the roughly twenty years that I regularly collaborated with Scott, I worked with and got to know many of his employees…

Scott Rudin

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Scott Rudin

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Apr 1, 2021

NOTES ON THE MYTH OF GANMADAN (THE END OF THE WORLD)

Version recorded by Prof. Ramdha of K’mu University, Romulus. — This myth is believed to descend from ancient Vulcan, long before the Time of Awakening and the departure of those rebel Vulcans who eventually settled on Romulus. …

Star Trek

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NOTES ON THE MYTH OF GANMADAN (THE END OF THE WORLD)
NOTES ON THE MYTH OF GANMADAN (THE END OF THE WORLD)
Star Trek

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Mar 7, 2021

SOME NOTES ON ROMULANS

Condensed from various SI (Starfleet Intelligence) analyses, accuracy unknown. Two Romulans, goes an old Romulan proverb, three conspiracies. As Vulcan culture is rooted in logic, and Klingon in honor, the foundation of Romulan society is secrecy. Their culture is an endless series of variations on themes of concealment, the covert…

Star Trek

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Star Trek

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Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

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Berkeley, California

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