In conversation with Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times film critic
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Chabon's newest is a hardboiled detective novel set in an alternate world where Israel failed to be born and millions of European Jewish refugees took shelter in Alaska, creating a miniature American Yiddishland.
Co-presented with The Council of the Library Foundation and sponsored by City National Bank with additional support from KPMG LLP.
Michael Chabon received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at UC Irvine, and has spent most of the past two decades in California. He is the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Other works include a young adult novel, Summerland, and two collections of short stories, A Model World and Other Stories and Werewolves In Their Youth.
Kenneth Turan is film critic for the Los Angeles Times and NPR’s Morning Edition and director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He is the author of, most recently, Never Coming To A Theater Near You: A Celebration of a Certain Kind of Movie.
