Little Toy Robot

Michael Chabon’s latest update, on his very own Web site, is filled with nothing but goodness. Buried among the myriad exciting facts and relevations is this:

What else? An apocryphal epilog to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay can be found, not perhaps without a certain amount of difficulty, in the catalog to an exhibit currently on view at Atlanta’s Breman Museum. I can’t give the title of the exhibit because it’s too embarrassing, though the show itself looks terrific.

Hey, I thought to myself, I LIVE IN ATLANTA! I work three blocks away from said Museum. I’ve been saving it for a rainy weekend, but I think I’ll go soon. Or at least get my hands on the catalog.

Also of note:

Down the road: an introduction to a proposed reissue, by NYRB, of one of the most important books of my childhood, that dark and luminous compendium, the D’Aulaires’ Norse Gods and Giants, which has somehow, shockingly, gone out of print.

This is exciting because I have been annotating Chabon’s Summerland on and off for the past year or two, with the goal of putting it on my Web site to show how cool I am and to attract members of the opposite sex. Recently Chabon namechecked Trickster Makes This World, and I’ve been reading the book with a recognition of its relevance to Summerland, which is a story that mixes baseball with mythology and has an important trickster character. The mythology is partially Norse, so I am very happy to find, in the D’Aulaire book mentioned above, another possible source to apply to my annotations.

And if that wasn’t enough Chabon for you, Scott Esposito recounts Chabon’s one and only appearance for his book, The Final Solution, at Cody’s in California.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 17th, 2004 at 11:28 am and is filed under comics, books, atlanta.