Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks.
Michael ChabonSee you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.
Michael ChabonHe looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
Michael ChabonMisogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.
Michael Chabon