born american novelist short story writer novel mysteries pittsburgh published followed second novel short story collections published amazing adventures novel review later novel called received pulitzer prize fiction literature novel alternate history mystery novel published won hugo awards serialized novel gentlemen road appeared book form fall year recent novel telegraph avenue published billed century concerns lives families san_francisco year work characterized complex language frequent use metaphor recurring themes including nostalgia divorce abandonment notably issues jewish identity includes gay bisexual jewish characters work late 1990s written increasingly diverse series styles varied outlets notable defender merits genre fiction plot driven fiction novels published children books comics newspaper biography early years pronounced words stadium born washington physician lawyer lawyer said knew wanted writer age wrote short story class assignment story received recalls thought want second thoughts doubts referring popular culture wrote raised diet parents divorced grew pittsburgh pennsylvania columbia maryland columbia lived months year mother progressive planned living community racial economic religious diversity actively fostered written mother marijuana use recalling sitting seat friend car passing little metal pipe forth went movie grew hearing spoken mother parents siblings attended year transferring studied received bachelor_of_arts went graduate school received master fine arts creative writing mysteries pittsburgh initial literary success novel mysteries pittsburgh written master thesis telling professor better known pen sent literary agent got author impressive advance novel time receive advances ranging mysteries pittsburgh appeared bestseller instantly status literary celebrity major literary influences period remarked copied writers voices responding think probably best way learn ambivalent new found fame turned offers appear gap featured people beautiful people later said people offer don shit pride things actually praised like weird felt like somebody calling saying want magazine weather nice live reflected success novel saying upside published got readership emotionally stuff started happening like wait minute thesis took years catch published model world collection short stories published previously new_yorker wonder boys success mysteries pittsburgh spent years working second novel called novel highly ambitious architect building perfect baseball park florida eventually pages end sight process frustrating words felt like steady ground point submitted page draft agent editor disliked work problems dropping novel scary said later signed contract paid money gotten divorce half money wife instincts telling book drop didn thought money office books write instead finally decided abandon recalls staring blank computer hours suddenly troubled young man tendency melodrama trying end began writing couple days written pages second novel drew experiences character frustrated novelist spent years working immense fourth novel author wrote seven month streak telling agent publisher abandoned book published commercial critical success late chapter fragment unfinished page manuscript complete introduction written included supporters washington_post critic despite declaring young star american letters argued works point preoccupied fictional time break away person explore larger worlds later said took criticism heart explaining thoughts bigger ambitions published second collection short stories youth included published foray genre fiction grim horror story black mill shortly completing discovered box comic books childhood interest comics coupled memories lore brooklyn born father told middle years twentieth century america radio shows politicians movies music athletes forth era inspired begin work new novel published epic historical novel charts years lives jewish cousins create wildly popular series comic books early 1940s years leading entry world war novel received nearly unanimous praise eventually winning pulitzer prize fiction reflected writing discovered strengths hoped possessed ability pull multiple points view historical settings passage years tested final solution gentlemen road published fantasy novel written younger readers received mixed reviews sold extremely won years later published final solution investigation led unknown old man reader guess final years world war project quarterly anthology series published purported stories involved fictitious year history character created protagonists awarded award best anthology pair best new series late completed work gentlemen road serialized novel ran january serial point working title jews swords described adventure story set year gentlemen road completed run author published latest novel worked february hard boiled detective story alternate history israel collapsed european jews settled alaska novel launched enthusiastic reviews spent weeks new_york_times best seller list novel won hugo award telegraph avenue said working young adult novel fantastic content month later author said plans young adult book hold instead signed book deal book length work non fiction called pleasures regrets husband father son published spring europe work discusses man complexity son father husband collection nominated northern california book award creative category second published collection essays non fiction published maps legends collection literary essays proceeds book benefited national received presented annually oklahoma library trust interview washington_post discussed second book contract saying like set present day feel right urge mainstream recent work session january added writing novel families berkeley march interview guardian newspaper added far overtly genre content set present day alternate reality like telegraph avenue adapted idea series pilot asked write social novel set borders oakland berkeley summer sees large cast characters infidelity politicians racism nostalgia buried secrets said publication interview san_francisco_chronicle novel concerns possibility creating shared community spaces attempt limits imposed backgrounds heritage history years gestation difficult birth telling guardian newspaper got years novel got completely felt like utter flop start keeping characters story completely leaving element starting literary realism novels moving genre fiction experiments clay onward feels telegraph avenue significant unification earlier later styles declaring interview wanted book crime fiction magic realism martial arts fiction open didn steer away story families living everyday lives pregnancy birth adultery business failure issues making novel written genre mainstream quote realistic fiction genre felt free mix sense novel optioned film producer previously optioned produced adapting novel screenplay according public lecture reading novel oakland california listed creative influences broad sir novel concerns friendship faith creation publication june despite success continues perceive failure noting received bad review knows decades memory favorable word june wrote piece new_york_times noted role jewish identity relation israel flotilla raid explanations followed amazon controversy leading book distributor dispute publisher hundreds authors included condemned amazon open letter amazon stopped taking pre orders books published personal life married poet publication mysteries pittsburgh mistakenly featured newsweek article coming gay writers pittsburgh protagonist people sexes new_york_times later reported ways happy magazine error quoted saying feel lucky opened new readership loyal interview added mysteries pittsburgh terms human sexuality identity people categories easily mysteries pittsburgh essay wrote remarked autobiographical events helped inspire novel slept man loved learned love man occurred want sleep according popularity mysteries pittsburgh adverse effects later explained married time struggling writer success created gross careers problematic divorced married writer currently live berkeley california children born born born june born march said creative free flow inspired relationship end entertainment_weekly declared couple famous famously love writing pair like nick word interview weekend things considered said writes day sunday thursday tries write words day commenting routine said plenty self destructive rebel angel years writing getting work getting work day want write novels long time big lot words best environment stable structured kind life interest genre fiction essay state modern short fiction including saying rare exceptions consisted solely contemporary moment truth story apparent reaction stories sparkling work marked increased interest genre fiction plot like mysteries pittsburgh essentially realistic contemporary novel plot happened revolve comic book subsequent works comic book writing adventure gentlemen road exclusively devoted mixing aspects genre literary fiction notable example won genre awards including hugo award award seeks genres bias certain genres fiction fantasy science fiction romance genre fiction met mixed critical reaction science fiction short story agent described reviewer send readers cold reliable arms new_yorker critic wrote story richly plotted action packed world draws worlds alternate histories brilliant imperial politics story keeps hanging village_voice called final solution ingenious fully imagined work expert piece literary mash note beloved boys tales youth boston_globe wrote genre comic book vein brilliance new_york_times states detective story genre nature constrained unlikely appeal real writer adds makes good claim successful detective story need lacking literary merit argued idea genre fiction entertaining fiction appeal real writer saying common perception entertainment means maybe reason pretends entertain accepted helped articulate narrow concept entertainment like believe read entertainment write entertain period positive responses brand literature appeared time magazine wrote literature mid transformation kept separate future literature coming classed movement authors similarly eager blend literary popular writing including friends hand slate said spent considerable energy trying drag decaying corpse genre fiction shallow grave writers literature abandoned persona genre work forged unusual horror fantasy fiction persona august van developed pseudonym purported pen novel narrator writes grew hotel worked english professor wrote hundreds pulp stories gothic mode manner written dry ironic times horror themed short story titled black mill published playboy june reprinted story collection youth attributed created comprehensive equally fictional literary scholar devoted named bach defunct website existed auspices declared question greatest unknown horror writer twentieth century mentioned bach edited collection short stories titled bach fictional comics expert wrote occasional essays character dark horse comic series established august van prize awarded short story embodies tradition weird short story practiced literary descendants august van recipient prize winning story included edited scene film adaptation novel mysteries pittsburgh shows characters august van books universe provided subtle hints work stories tells place shared fictional universe recurring character mentioned books actually appears fictional catcher pittsburgh_pirates died abruptly crashing car road detailed exposition life appears short story smoke set funeral refers scholarly catcher batsman kind person referred novel narrator explains sportswriter friend happy hired ghost autobiography catcher rising star played pittsburgh hit sort home runs memory years explains turned inadequate draft book contract cancelled catcher died shortly leaving happy notorious files fragments ghost children book suggested eventually able find publisher biography character mentions read book called written selected homage contemporary author record novel little big featured main character named instances character story story character debut novel mysteries pittsburgh described having come wealthy family expected able building near end wonder boys mentioned unnamed college campus teaches building called hall english faculty kept office hours similarly short story model world character named discovers formula cloud control wins respect prominence meteorological field passing reference massive ostensibly building owned experiences hollywood described attitude hollywood pre years author engaged sustained fruitless efforts bring adapted original projects screen pitched screenplay entitled gentleman host producer romantic comedy old jewish folks rate cruise ship miami bought project developed filmed partly release similarly themed film sea pitched story ideas fantastic movies rejected adapting wonder boys screen author declined offer write screenplay saying busy writing clay directed starring released critical acclaim financial failure having bought film rights clay asked work film screenplay spent months working novel film adaptation project pre production years work remains popular hollywood purchasing film rights titled years book published year bought rights tales mystery imagination planned collection genre short stories written optioned sum mid figures wrote draft final film soon released director mentioned hoped hire work film sequel worked october announced work writing disney snow seven live action martial arts retelling seven directed master hong_kong fight choreographer director august said replaced snow explaining producers wanted fun direction project director shot film adaptation mysteries pittsburgh fall film stars released april february reported film adaptation pre production written directed brothers april confirmed hired revisions script disney involved writing lyrics album special honors literary award wonder boys son finalist fiction pulitzer prize fiction amazing adventures clay california book award fiction pen finalist literary award alternate history salon book award california book award fiction hugo award best novel union award best novel best foreign novel literary award entertainment weekly end decade best list northern california book award general nomination elected chairman board colony inducted letters telegraph best books list telegraph avenue year list telegraph avenue kansas city star books list fiction telegraph avenue best books list telegraph avenue new_york_times telegraph avenue good reads choice awards finalist telegraph avenue fiction finalist telegraph avenue california book award fiction finalist telegraph avenue american literature literary award telegraph avenue criticism interpretation conversations collection interviews joseph understanding contemporary american trauma narratives contains chapter discussing trauma relation contemporary history novels discussing alongside paul man dark literature fantasies contains chapter history escape relation clay bob america magical words collection essays considering aspects body work telegraph avenue odyssey echoes vol december margaret strange times jew alternate history john robert fantasies state security terrorism contains discussion union
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