Mark at The L Magazine blog previews tonight’s Michael Chabon reading better than we could.

Under any circumstances, really, a reading by and interview with Michael Chabon would probably be an event worth noting on this here blog, but I sorta feel like tonight’s reading at the 92nd Street Y is especially noteworthy, given that this is one of his first readings of his new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Which, aside from the usual hype accompanying a new book by a major author, has also been getting attention for a) that thing where he completely re-wrote the book after scrapping its initial pub date, and b) the somewhat inexplicable accusation of anti-Semitism leveled at it by the Post‘s right-wing frat-boy movie critic Kyle Smith. Not sure what that’s about other than the Post trying to score Zionist points while taking down a noted left-leaning public figure, but still, you’d think that Chabon would be an unlikely target given that he’s written so memorably and sympathetically about the immigrant Jewish experience (say Kavalier and Clay; for that matter, even the bite-sized Sherlock Holmes piece The Final Solution has a Holocaust subtext).