The Capital Times in Madison ran an interview with Michael Chabon. Sounds like he has a new book coming out in May and in January, he'll start doing the New York Times serial novel. Currently, it's being done by Michael Connelly.
Can I ask what it's about? Essentially it's a hard-boiled kind of detective novel, I suppose, that's set in an alternate reality in which this small little Yiddish-speaking district of the United States that's in southeast Alaska was created during World War II as a supposedly temporary refuge for the Jews of Europe, but has stuck around for the next 60 years. It's facing a crisis in this moment of its existence when this homicide occurs, and this homicide detective investigates it.
I'll be waiting at the bookstore for this the very first day.
Posted by Josh at October 20, 2006 08:10 AM