James Leer steals the jacket worn by Marilyn Monroe at her wedding from Richard Gaskell in a novel centering on Grady Tripp, and the title characters of another of his novels create the comic book hero The Escapist.
In one of his short stories, Paul Kovel tries to help his crazy neighbor Timothy Stokes, who believes he is a werewolf. Along with Werewolves in their Youth and A Model World, he wrote about the son of the gangster "Joe the Egg," who is torn between his attraction to Arthur Lecompte and Phlox Lombardi in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. James Leer steals the jacket worn by Marilyn Monroe at her wedding from Richard Gaskell in a novel centering on Grady Tripp, and the title characters of another of his novels create the comic book hero The Escapist. For 10 points, name this American author of Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
In one of his short stories, Paul Kovel tries to help his crazy neighbor Timothy Stokes, who believes he is a werewolf.
Michael Chabon