LA Times: Chabon and Me.
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Last week I had the cool opportunity to do a piece for the Book Review section at the LA Times for Michael Chabon’s new book Manhood for Amateurs. This is cool for several reasons: Chabon and I are from Pittsburgh, we attended Carnegie Mellon University, and we both live/ed in Berkeley. This is Chabon’s first work of autobiographical non-fiction. Michael is considered to be the greatest voice of his generation. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) was published when Chabon was 25 and catapulted him to literary celebrity. That’s good material to work with. At the time, there was no manuscript just a book title and some random reviews but I know what it was like anyway, I grew up there too. I called my sketch “Journey to Manhood” and the title of the review ran “Manhood Bound”. Cool too. I can’t say no to the Times. Paul Gonzales AD.
This was my initial doodle with keywords written right on the email printout. 
I made this image as the sketch.             
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