Spiegelman, Chabon, Comics
Kurt Andersen and illustrator Art Spiegelman storm the two-dimensional storytelling universe of comic books and comic strips. We fight evil with Marvel Comics' Silver Surfer and we'll hear from...
View ArticleThe Escapist
Michael Chabon, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, tells us how comics reveal unintended things about their creators.
View ArticleAmerican Icons: Superman
We go up, up and away with Superman and find out why "The Man of Steel" remains as popular and elusive as ever.Disguised as a mild-mannered reporter, Kurt Andersen explores the history of Superman with...
View ArticleMichael Chabon Knows Best
In Manhood for Amateurs, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay) worries that young people are losing the experience of unsupervised adventure.
View ArticleCopeland, Disney, Chabon
Studio 360 revisits childhood. Before he was the drummer for The Police, Stewart Copeland was a boy in Beirut with a CIA spy for a dad. He dishes about Sting in a new memoir. Author Michael Chabon...
View ArticleSongs About Presidents, Michael Chabon, Passion Pit At The Tiny Desk
In honor of President's Day, Soundcheck takes a look at songs about presidents, from a collection called Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies. The project is the work of three...
View ArticleSoundcheck Writers Club: Bettye Lavette, Michael Chabon
In this episode: Singer Bettye Lavette has chronicled the rough side of the '60s soul scene in a memoir called A Woman Like Me. The Detroit native gives her brutally honest take on her life in music...
View ArticleMichael Chabon on superhero costumes
This week in the magazine, Michael Chabon writes about what superheroes should wear. Here Chabon talks about the difficulties of dressing superheroes off the comic-book page, writing about clothes, and...
View ArticleMelissa Clark on the Many Ways to Cook a Turkey, Michael Chabon on 'Moonglow'
New York Times food columnist and cookbook author Melissa Clark tells us the many ways to cook a turkey including spatchcocking, deep-frying and steaming! Directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg on...
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Michael Chabon blends fact and fiction to create ‘a truth’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: the “NewsHour” Bookshelf.Jeffrey Brown sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon about his new book, “Moonglow,” and...
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American Icons: Superman
Disguised as a mild-mannered reporter, Kurt Andersen explores the history of Superman with cartoonists Jules Feiffer and Art Spiegelman, director Bryan Singer, novelists Michael Chabon and Howard...
View ArticleMichael Chabon on Fashion and Fatherhood
Author Michael Chabon discusses his new collection of essays, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces. The book emerged from a piece he wrote for GQ about attending Paris Men’s Fashion Week with his teenage son. It...
View ArticleJames Wood Is Done “Prosecuting Wars”
When James Wood joined The New Yorker as a literary critic, he promised that he wouldn’t “go soft”: he was well known at The New Republic for battles with prominent writers whose styles he found...
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