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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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Michael Chabon

Writer Michael Chabon answers the five questions, mentioning real estate, Mr. Terrific, and Ashtabula.

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Rosecrans Baldwin
TMN co-editor Rosecrans Baldwin lives in Paris, France. He founded The Morning News with Andrew Womack in 1999 and has been waking up early ever since. His first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out soon with Riverhead Books. He currently writes the Letters from Paris column for TMN. His work has elsewhere appeared in The New York Times, New York, The Nation, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. His personal web site is useless, unless you want to know what he is up to next. Someday his ashes will be tossed off Mount Desert Island.
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DOB: 24 May, 1963

What do you do:
Writer

Favorite book:
In Search of Lost Time, Proust

Heroes:
Matter-Eater Lad, Mr. Terrific, The Legion of Substitute Heroes

What makes you laugh:
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer

Charity worth giving to:
Sierra Club

Five words that sound good:
Guadalajara, blancmange, Ashtabula, Lampedusa, Velveteen
—Published September 7, 2001