In Conversation with Michael Chabon, a benefit for Park Day School

Oakland’s Park
Day School will host an evening in conversation with literary luminary and
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon,
7:00pm Wednesday, October 2 at the beautiful Julia Morgan Theatre (2640 College
Avenue, Berkeley.)  The venue’s intimate
setting will allow for a personal and authentic experience for those in
attendance to hear from the accomplished author on a variety of topics and ask
questions of their own. This incisive and candid conversation with Chabon and Park Day
School’s Zach
Wyner will benefit the school’s academic and financial assistance programs.
Tickets ($24 advance, $20 students) can be purchased online at www.parkdayschool.org or by calling 510-653-0317, ext 103. 

Michael Chabon is known for continually reinventing conventional genres
and entertaining readers while gently provoking self-reflection.  His writings are widely considered the
“cutting edge” of conventional fiction, with Time Magazine declaring “you can
almost see the future of literature coming.” Called “An amazingly rich, emotionally detailed story”
by the New York Times, his newest
book, Telegraph Avenue, is a
big-hearted and exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined
lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white, delivering
a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. His first novel, a hilarious and poignant coming of
age story titled The Mysteries of
Pittsburgh, was published when he was just 25 and catapulted him to
literary celebrity.  He followed it with
novels including Wonder Boys (later converted to a film starring Michael Douglas), The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Summerland, and Gentlemen of the Road. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 for
his internationally celebrated novel The Amazing
Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

Moderator Zach
Wyner has worked as a playwright, actor, and tutor and has spent the past
four years teaching at Park
Day School. He earned his
MFS in Creative Writing from University
of San Francisco in 2009 and splits
his free time between tutoring math and writing, volunteering at 826 Valencia, and
writing a collection of short stories.