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Some Favorite Writers: Michael Chabon
Some Favorite Writers: Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon is the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Summerland, The Final Solution, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and Gentlemen of the Road, as well as the short-story collections A Model World and Werewolves in Their Youth and the essay collections Maps and Legends and Manhood for Amateurs. His new novel is Telegraph Avenue. Michael will be joined on stage by his wife, writer Ayelet Waldman.
A book signing will follow the reading.
SOME FAVORITE WRITERS
This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood, Anywhere But Here, and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson.
Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.
ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.
Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00pm.
Public programs are made possible by Hammer Members and the generosity of Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, and an anonymous donor.
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