Benjamin Roesch

Tag: michael chabon

  • Post #60: A Nice Little Bit of Wonderfulness

    That’s the phrase that came to mind when I watched this short interview/profile of author Michael Chabon. A nice little bit of wonderfulness.  Especially the bit about him sitting on a steamer trunk in his mother’s basement writing on the family’s early primitive computer. I’ve been re-reading Chabon’s wonderful novel…

  • Post #53: Pre-Order Purgatory

    I have to vent for a minute about the sudden (or so it seems to me) availability to pre-order forthcoming whatever.  Books, music, movies.  You can buy anything in advance these days.  Let’s say you do some searching to see what’s new out there.  Whatever purveyor you’ve searched (iTunes, Amazon,…