News Release

San Francisco - In honor of National Short Story Month, acclaimed writers Michael Chabon and Andrew Sean Greer will appear together in the San Francisco Main Library to read and discuss their favorite books and short stories. The event, which is part of Open Books: Writers at the Library, will be held in the Koret Auditorium on Thursday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m

Michael Chabon is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his much renowned and best-selling third novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. The novel, set in New York, features a refugee from Nazi-invaded Prague who teams up with his Brooklyn cousin to create comic book heroes, stories and art. A Berkeley writer, Michael Chabon won the Bay Area Book Reviewer’s Award, the New York Society Library Award, and was honored as a San Francisco Library Laureate in 2001 shortly before. Other works include A Model Youth and Other Stories and Wonder Boys, among others.

A seasoned short story writer, San Francisco writer Andrew Sean Greer’s work has appeared in Esquire, Ploughshares, Story, The Paris Review and more. A collection of his stories, How It Was For Me, was published in 2000, and his debut novel, The Path of Minor Planets, in the fall of 2001. This stunning novel is set in 1965 on a small island in the South Pacific, where a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet. When a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways. Much of the novel is set around the Bay Area.

Works by Michael Chabon and Andrew Sean Greer are published by Picador USA. The Library reading will include a booksigning sponsored by Book Bay at the Main.

All programs and exhibits at the Library are free of charge and open to the public.

For more information, please call (415) 557-4277.