The Thursday morning BEA breakfast featured authors Zadie Smith, J.R. Moehringer and a personal favorite, admitted “total nerd” Michael Chabon. Kirstie Alley hosted, and Jimmy Fallon provided a quick hello and book plug at the beginning. He read from his second volume of wry Thank You Notes, closing with: “Thank you, Kindle, for being able to hold over 1,400 books, but never being as good as being able to hold the real thing in my hands, you son-of-a-b–ch.” Chabon offered his “first attempt” at trying to explain how he came to write his forthcoming TELEGRAPH AVENUE, after admitting that his “truest […]
