Join acclaimed husband-and-wife novelists Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon for a lively “Fishbowl Session” on the art of writing and the realities of literary life. Taking questions from the audience and posing them to one another, the two authors discuss their books, their approaches to fiction, the challenges of the writing process, and how marriage and literature intersect when two novelists share a life.
About the speakers:
Ayelet Waldman is the author of the new novel A Perfect Hand, as well as of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter’s Keeper, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace. She co-created Netflix’s Unbelievable, for which she won a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe and other prizes. She is the co-editor of Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. The mother of four children, she lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Michael Chabon.
Michael Chabon is the author of two collections of short stories, A Model World and Werewolves in their Youth, the novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and Telegraph Avenue, and the non-fiction books Maps and Legends and Manhood for Amateurs. Wonder Boys has been made into a film starring Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, Esquire and Playboy. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, and their four children.
