Michael Chabon is a fantastic author - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Wonder Boys - and is a big name amongst the geeky ready set. His wife has become well-known mostly due to her obsession with her husband, "the novelist Michael Chabon" (as she refers to him every time she mentions him) and her very vocal lack of obsession with her children. (She wrote an essay once about how if her children died she'd be fine but if her husband - the novelist Michael Chabon - died, she wouldn't be able to go on.) I know several people who've had encounters with her and she's just really, really twatty so I can't resist making fun of her.
They are a strange, odd couple, and I liked his books so much more before I ever heard anything about his wife and their relationship. Now, I know too much, and it buuuuuuuuuuurns.
Um, who are these people and why should I care that she's obnoxious?
ReplyDeleteMichael Chabon is a fantastic author - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Wonder Boys - and is a big name amongst the geeky ready set. His wife has become well-known mostly due to her obsession with her husband, "the novelist Michael Chabon" (as she refers to him every time she mentions him) and her very vocal lack of obsession with her children. (She wrote an essay once about how if her children died she'd be fine but if her husband - the novelist Michael Chabon - died, she wouldn't be able to go on.) I know several people who've had encounters with her and she's just really, really twatty so I can't resist making fun of her.
ReplyDeleteThat should have read, "geeky, read-y set"...
ReplyDeleteThey are a strange, odd couple, and I liked his books so much more before I ever heard anything about his wife and their relationship. Now, I know too much, and it buuuuuuuuuuurns.
ReplyDeleteShe sounds horrible! Why she ever had children if they're so disposable is a question.
ReplyDeleteMy husband, Eric the Lawyer, would agree.
Nope, can't get into the husband obsession.... : )
It looks like she is squeezing the life out of him in that picture. YIKE!
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