SF – Nerdist Writers Panel

Michael Chabon, Erik Larsen, Glen David Gold, and Joshua Davis join host Ben Blacker for a special edition of the Nerdist Writers Panel at Wired Magazine on Friday, January 25, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Click here for tickets ($30)

Press Release:

Join Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; Telegraph Avenue), novelist Glen David Gold (Carter Beats the Devil; Sunnyside), comic book writer/artist/publisher Erik Larsen (Savage Dragon), and journalist and Wired contributing editor Joshua Davis (The Underdog) as they talk with moderator Ben Blacker (co-creator, The Thrilling Adventure Hour) about the process and business of writing.

Proceeds from the live panel benefit 826Valencia, the non-profit tutoring program founded by Dave Eggers.

The Nerdist Writers Panel series is an informal chat with professional writers about the process and business of writing. Covering TV, film, comic books, music, novels, and any other kind of writing about which you’d care to hear.

The Nerdist Writers Panel podcast is available via Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist network and is consistently a top TV/Film podcast on iTunes. Previous panelists have included Vince Gilligan (creator, Breaking Bad), Matthew Weiner (creator, Mad Men), Damon Lindelof (co-creator, Lost), Bob Odenkirk (co-creator, Mr. Show), and many, many more.

The Kitchen at Wired Magazine
520 3rd Street #305, San Francisco, CA 94107

MA – Telegraph Avenue Signing

Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh) returns to the Booksmith on Wednesday October 3, 2012 at 6:00pm with his long-awaited new novel. In Telegraph Avenue, he explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland families—one black, one white—through the world of pop culture.

SOLD OUT Tickets $5.00; order via Brookline Booksmith

A standby line will be forming at 5:30pm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA) in the case that there are unclaimed tickets. Unclaimed tickets will go for sale at 5:55pm. They are $5 each and we will only accept cash sales at that point.

The book signing, which will take place at approximately 7pm at the Booksmith (279 Harvard St., Brookline) is open to all.

Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446-2908
617-566-6660

SF – An Evening with Michael Chabon

Author Michael Chabon appears in conversation with Adam Savage at the Herbst Theatre on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 7:30 pm.

Press Release:

An “immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), Michael Chabon is celebrated for his remarkable ability to transport his readers. His first book, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, began as his thesis project at UC Irvine and became a coming-of-age novel about sexual identity. Published when he was just 25, the novel was a New York Times bestseller and catapulted Chabon into literary stardom. Chabon’s other novels include Wonder Boys, which was made into a critically-acclaimed film featuring Michael Douglas; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer-Prize; and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. His most recent non-fiction work, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, was published in 2009. Chabon’s forthcoming novel, Telegraph Avenue, is the story of two intertwined Oakland, California, families, one black and one white. It is an exploration of friendship, race, and secret histories.

Adam Savage is an industrial special effects designer, actor and co-host of The Discovery Channel series Mythbusters. His acting resume includes early work as voices for Sesame Street characters created by his father. Savage has also taught advance model making at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He has previously interviewed Michael Lewis, Chef David Chang and actor/musician Fred Armisen for City Arts & Lectures.

Buy tickets here.

Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102

NYC – Telegraph Avenue Signing

Michael Chabon signs at Barnes & Noble on Wednesday September 19, 2012 at 7:00 PM.

About this Author
Although his novels and short stories have varied in setting — from the 1940s New York of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay to the contemporary Pittsburgh of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh — all of Michael Chabon s witty and understated books feature memorable, deftly-drawn characters trying to find their place in the world.

Barnes & Noble - Union Square
33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003
212-253-0810