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pImagine. It’s the year 1940. Jews are looking for a place to call home. Israel is falling apart, so a piece of land is carved out for Jews thousands of miles away in Alaska. That’s where Michael Chabon’s novel „The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” begins.
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pLast night the book earned Chabon a Hugo Award for Best Novel. A Hugo is like a Pulitzer but from the World Science Fiction Society. I told Michael Chabon that his book sure Canada Goose Outlet doesn’t sound like science fiction.
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pMr. And I mean so, you know, the world of science fiction or let’s call it the territory of science fiction canada goose store has very porous boundaries.
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pAnd there’s definitely room in it for a work of alternate history, which is sort of the portal into which this novel passes into the land of science fiction.
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pSEABROOK: Your alternate history here is pretty pretty alternate. Just a quick sketch?
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pMr. CHABON: Well, you know, all alternate history, I think if it’s done in cheap canada goose uk the usual manner, it all starts with one change, one small difference. entered World War II.
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pAnd it proposed allowing them to settle in Alaska on a temporary basis just as kind of a shelter to get them out of harm’s way. But in the world of this novel, the plan actually eventually comes to pass, Canada Goose Jackets and as a result you have ultimately, if you combine the immigration before the war and then the people who buy canada goose jacket cheap came after the conclusion of the war, you end up uk canada goose with a couple million people living up there in Sitka, Alaska.
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pSEABROOK: Can I ask you, what do you think of other work that’s canada goose uk outlet going canadian goose jacket on cheap Canada Goose in science fiction right now? Do canada goose coats on sale you read science fiction?
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pMr. CHABON: Yes I do. I still read science fiction, a href=”https://www.topcanadagoose.ca” rel=”friend met co-worker neighbor”https://www.topcanadagoose.ca/a and I see all of kinds of diversity. I think I find a very intense ongoing kind of intellectual and aesthetic debate in the canada goose factory sale world of science fiction. The people who are reading it and the Canada Goose Coats On Sale people who are writing it seem to me to be engaged canada goose uk black friday in an ongoing conversation about the fiction that they love on a level that I think is enviable, that would be a credit to uk canada goose outlet the world of mainstream fiction.
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pSEABROOK: I understand Canada Goose Online the Coen brothers are working on a movie of your novel.
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pMr. CHABON: Yes. That’s what I’m told.
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pSEABROOK: You don’t actually haven’t spoken with them?
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pSEABROOK: For canada goose clearance our listeners, they made „Fargo,” they made „No Country for Old Men,” „Raising Arizona” among other great films.
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pMr. CHABON: „Miller’s Crossing.”
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pMr. CHABON: That’s one of my favorites. And „The Big Lebowski,” of course.
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pMr. CHABON: Yeah, no, that’s the idea, at least. And I’ve been told they’re working on the screenplay, you know, right now, which canada goose black friday sale is very exciting for me to contemplate. And I can’t imagine better suited filmmakers to this material. They’ve proven how canada goose comfortable Canada Goose Parka and skilled they are at handling noir ish kind of material over and over again.
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pAnd then canada goose uk shop to add this layer of kind of this loopy, skewed Jewish America that never existed, it feels to me like a perfect match for them.
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pSEABROOK: What are you working a href=”https://www.topcanadagoose.ca” rel=”friend met co-worker neighbor”cheap canada goose/a on now?
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pMr. CHABON: I’m writing a novel.
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pSEABROOK: Or whatever they call them. I don’t know what they are either.
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pMr. CHABON: No, this is a mainstream, more of a mainstream kind of novel. It’s set in recognizable present day consensus reality, at least so far.
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pMr. CHABON: No superpowers yet.
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pMr. CHABON: You never know. It’s early days still.
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pSEABROOK: Michael Chabon won a Hugo Award last night for his novel „The Yiddish Policemen’s Canada Goose online Union.” Thanks so much for taking the time to talk with us.
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pMr. CHABON: Oh, it’s my pleasure. buy canada goose jacket Thank you very much. I’m happy to do so.
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