Chabonesque

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1. Resembling or characteristic of American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer Michael Chabon (born 1963).

   A wonderful setup of an opening chapter—Conan Doylish and yet quite stylish and Chabonesque in its own right.

   2004 November 21, Alan Cheuse, “Michael Chabon’s deft tribute to novels of detection”, in Chicago Tribune, 158th year, number 326, section 14, page 4, columns 3–4

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   Now, with Werewolves in Their Youth, his splendid new volume of short stories, it’s possible to speak of a Chabon oeuvre, to recognize a style and certain subject matters as Chabonesque.

   1999 April 4, James Hynes, “A human comedy for middle-class America”, in Sunday Monitor, Concord, N.H., page D4, column 1

   Mapping is a very Chabonesque activity; in Summerland, he creates not one world but four, linked by a vast tree.

   2002 December 22, Samantha Ellis, “Do we need another fantasy novel? It seems we do”, in The Observer, number 11,019, section “Books”, page 16

   With Pittsburgh soon to reappear on cinema screens worldwide, cab drivers better be ready to take visitors to such Chabonesque landmarks as the Cloud Factory.

   2006 June 11, “Asides”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 79, number 315, page H-2, column 2

   “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” is itself a translation of a Chandler detective mystery such as “The Big Sleep” (1939) or “Farewell, My Lovely” (1940)—translated into Chabonesque American.

   2007 May 13, Steven G. Kellman, “More tsoris for ‘the Frozen Chosen’ people”, in Chicago Tribune, 160th year, number 133, section 14, page 3, column 3

   DS [Delia Sherman]: I definitely think Chabon has written a lot of interstitial fiction. When The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay came out, I saw it as interstitial, existing at the confluence of historical, literary, and fantastic fiction, all in the service (and this is the kicker) of turning a pair of schlubs who imagined superheroes into superheroes themselves (for a Chabonesque value of superhero).

   2009, Colleen Mondor, Christopher Barzak, Delia Sherman, “Afterwords: An Interstitial Interview”, in Delia Sherman, Christopher Barzak, editors, Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, →ISBN, pages 297–298