He wrote an alternative history novel set in Sitka, Alaska, in which Berko Shemets and Meyer Landsman investigate a plot to blow up the Dome of the Rock.
This author complained about the plotlessness of modern short stories in the essay "Trickster in a Suit of Lights." His own stories include one in which a grad student plagiarizes a dissertation on cloud movement, "A Model World." He wrote a mystery novel about the search for a mute boy's missing parrot, as well as a serial novel set in Khazaria about Amram and Zelikman. Recurring characters in his works include Eli (*) Drinkwater and the horror writer August Van Zorn. He wrote an alternative history novel set in Sitka, Alaska, in which Berko Shemets and Meyer Landsman investigate a plot to blow up the Dome of the Rock. More famously, he created a boy who escapes from Prague by hiding in a coffin with a golem and who, along with his cousin, invents a superhero called the Escapist. For 10 points, name this contemporary author of The Yiddish Policemen's Union and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay.
This author complained about the plotlessness of modern short stories in the essay "Trickster in a Suit of Lights."
Michael Chabon