Chabonesque

English Etymology From en Chabon esque. Adjective Resembling or characteristic of American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer Michael Chabon (born 1963). en w:James Hynes A human comedy for middle-class America Sunday Monitor Concord, N.H. 4 April 1999 D4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/925213258/ 1 Now, with Werewolves in Their Youth, his splendid new volume of short stories, it’s possible to speak of a Chabon oeuvre, to recognize a style and certain subject matters as Chabonesque. en w:Samantha Ellis Do we need another fantasy novel? It seems we do w:The Observer 11,019 22 December 2002 section “Books” 16 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/258999873/ Mapping is a very Chabonesque activity; in Summerland, he creates not one world but four, linked by a vast tree. en w:Alan Cheuse Michael Chabon’s deft tribute to novels of detection w:Chicago Tribune 158th year 326 21 November 2004 14 4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/232178046/ 3–4 A wonderful setup of an opening chapter—Conan Doylish and yet quite stylish and Chabonesque in its own right. en Asides w:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 79 315 11 June 2006 H-2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/96545141/ 2 With Pittsburgh soon to reappear on cinema screens worldwide, cab drivers better be ready to take visitors to such Chabonesque landmarks as the Cloud Factory. en w:Steven G. Kellman More tsoris for ‘the Frozen Chosen’ people w:Chicago Tribune 160th year 133 13 May 2007 14 3 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/231843199/ 3 “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” is itself a translation of a Chandler detective mystery such as “The Big Sleep” (1939) or “Farewell, My Lovely” (1940)—translated into Chabonesque American. en Colleen Mondor; w:Christopher Barzak; w:Delia Sherman Afterwords: An Interstitial Interview Delia Sherman; Christopher Barzak Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing 2009 297–298 https://books.google.com/books?id=TQ213nS2CZMC&pg=PA298 978-1-931520-61-4 DS [Delia Sherman]: I definitely think Chabon has written a lot of interstitial fiction. When The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay came out, I saw it as interstitial, existing at the confluence of historical, literary, and fantastic fiction, all in the service (and this is the kicker) of turning a pair of schlubs who imagined superheroes into superheroes themselves (for a Chabonesque value of superhero). en The Literary Review 2012 57 https://books.google.com/books?id=ggGpBguPWlAC&q=Chabonesque But the pervading effervescence reminds me of when my grandfather, asked what he thought of Salman Rushdie’s fiction, observed, in a Chabonesque simile, that it was like eating Chinese food: all very nice when it’s going on, but afterwards it just leaves you feeling empty. en w:Jess Walter 'Telegraph Avenue,' by Michael Chabon SFGate https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Telegraph-Avenue-by-Michael-Chabon-3848845.php 7 September 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120908050321/https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Telegraph-Avenue-by-Michael-Chabon-3848845.php 8 September 2012 quoted in Praise for Telegraph Avenue https://archive.org/details/telegraphavenuen0000chab_g0r8/page/n2/mode/1up w:Michael Chabon Telegraph Avenue w:Harper Perennial 2013 978-0-06-149334-8 Actually, forget Joycean or Bellovian or any other authorial allusion. "Telegraph Avenue" might best be described as Chabonesque. en John Joseph Hess Quentin Tarantino and the Paradox of Popular Culture in Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue Jesse Kavadlo; Bob Batchelor Michael Chabon’s America: Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces w:Rowman & Littlefield 2014 43 https://archive.org/details/michaelchabonsam0000unse/page/43/mode/1up 978-1-4422-3604-2 Suffusing the final pages of the novel with an appropriately and characteristically Chabonesque note of nostalgia, Chabon describes a meeting between the former friends Julius and Titus. en A[nthony] O[liver] Scott Story After Story Sunday Book Review 18 November 2016 20 November 1 published online as Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/books/review/michael-chabon-moonglow.html 18 November 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161118234403/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/books/review/michael-chabon-moonglow.html 18 November There are moments at which you can feel the irresistible temptation to embellish and invent, to infuse reality with Chabonesque touches of wistful Jewish magic realism, being resisted. en Kimberley Jones Amsterdam w:The Austin Chronicle https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2022-10-07/amsterdam/ 7 October 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221006085011/https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2022-10-07/amsterdam/ 7 October 2022 This is a film that actually wants to be a novel; or maybe what I mean is, Amsterdam feels like an unsuccessful adaptation of a better book, perhaps a Chabonesque sprawl of indelible characters darting between actual history and narrative fancy, densely plotted and peopled. en eponyms