Sunshine, secrets, and swoon-worthy stories—June's featured reads are your perfect summer escape.
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon's first novel, THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH (1988), was originally written for his master's thesis at UC Irvine and became a New York Times bestseller. His second bestseller, WONDER BOYS (1995), was made into a critically acclaimed film featuring actors Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire. Random House published his third novel, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, in 2000. It received widespread acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize. Chabon is also the author of two collections of short stories, A MODEL WORLD AND OTHER STORIES (1990) and WEREWOLVES IN THEIR YOUTH (1999), and a young adult novel, SUMMERLAND (2002), which won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature. He has also written articles and essays, a number of screenplays and teleplays (including contributing to the screenplay for the second "Spiderman" film), edited the 2005 Best American Short Stories, and writes a regular column for the magazine Details.