10 Questions for Michael Chabon

Pulitzer Prize--winning novelist Michael Chabon on race, fatherhood and writing box-office flops

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Lee Towndrow for TIME

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You make a lot of fun of Berkeley in this book--I do?

It's not parody? Even the new-wave knitting store?

There is an avant-garde knitting store in Oakland. That's strict reportage. I love Berkeley. I love Oakland. Avant-garde knitting sounds like an exaggeration but is in fact accurate.

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