Hear Author Michael Chabon Sing Lead Vocals in a Punk Band in Newly-Released Audio — openculture.com

The bio on Michael Chabon’s website is one of the most punk rock author bios I’ve ever seen. Clearly, the task of writing it was not left to chance or some publicist. Where other authors might limit themselves to the strictly professional, Chabon spices things up with details on his bar mitzvah, his failed first marriage, and the births of his children. Where others’ timelines grow weighty with evidence of increasing fame, his reads more like a diary, written in the third person.

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