11/9/2009 8:00pm - 9:30pm at City Arts & Lectures
Michael Chabon is first and foremost a writer of great imagination, intelligence and originality. In 2001, Chabon received the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, a novel that pays tribute to his lifelong love of comics, superheroes, and graphic novels. His many books include, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, Summerland, and The Yiddish Policemen's Union - which has been described as an "alternate history mystery novel," a description that could apply to much of Chabon's highly inventive work. In a review of Gentlemen of the Road, the New York Times describes "the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabon's language," and he is a wizard of the gleeful, action-packed sentence. His forthcoming collection of essays, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son, delves into modern manhood, and Chabon's personal experience balancing those roles. With characteristic humor, insight, and warmth, Chabon relates his life behind the public persona of fiction writer.
Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986. His work for that publication has earned him both the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting as well as three National Magazine Awards for Essay and Criticism. In 1995, The New Yorker dispatched Gopnik to Paris to write the "Paris Journals," in which he described daily life in that city, drawing revelations from everyday observations. A beloved collection of essays called From Paris to the Moon grew from his time there, recounting his family's life in the City of Light. With help from his young son Luke, Gopnik wrote the children's novel The King in the Window, a magical adventure of a young American boy living in Paris. Gopnik's subjects are always uniquely imaginative and wide-ranging. His most recent book is a collection of essays and historical meditations, Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life. Gopnik explores the way in which these two men, who never met, brought about stark changes in mankind's understanding of itself.
Venues
Happening today
March 11th, 2010
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A Talking Art program featuring a discussion with printmaker Joseph Goldyne
Annual Monotype Marathon
7:00pm - 9:00pm at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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Candida Höfer, Jennie Smith
Zoologische Gärten + New Works
through 4/10/2010 at Rena Bransten Gallery
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Mark Flood
Green Cube
through 4/11/2010 at Noma Gallery
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Theodora Varney Jones, Francesca Pastine, Marta Sanchez-Vasquez
Interdependencia | Interdependence
through 4/16/2010
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Kate Eric
Bug War Over Two Blue Mountain
through 5/1/2010 at Frey Norris Gallery
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Janet Bishop on Jeff Koons's Michael Jackson and Bubbles
6:30pm at SFMOMA
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Artist Talk: A Conversation with Renowned Printmaker Joseph Goldyne
7:00pm at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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Youth Producing Change
7:00pm at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Back in the Sleeve: Jews on Vinyl Closing Event
7:00pm - 9:00pm at Contemporary Jewish Museum
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Defiant Proclamations
7:00pm - 11:30pm at CELLspace
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Dave Eggers "Zeitoun" with Abdulrahman & Kathy Zeitoun hosted by Wajahat Ali
8:00pm at City Arts & Lectures
What’s new
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TGIT
3/25/2010 5:30pm - 7:30pm at Kala Art Institute and Gallery
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John DiPaolo
New Paintings
4/1/2010 - 5/29/2010 at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
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Sean McFarland, James Sterling Pitt
The Sea All Around Us
3/13/2010 - 4/4/2010 at Sight School
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Tom Bills, Caroline Cox, Mitra Fabian
New Cast Concrete and Steel Sculpture
3/16/2010 - 4/24/2010 at Don Soker Contemporary Art
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Group show
Cream, from the top
3/20/2010 - 4/18/2010
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pick
Performance Art in Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining
3/12/2010 - 3/13/2010
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At Bay
3/10/2010 - 3/20/2010 at Worth Ryder Art Gallery
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Security
3/10/2010 - 3/27/2010 at Root Division
Happenstand is a lackadaisical venture
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