Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman In Conversation

The Sydney Writer’s Festival presents the power couple of modern American literature, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Meeting through a blind date in 1992, the authors were engaged within three weeks and married the next––now living in Berkley, California with four children and more than twenty books released between the two of them.

Pulitzer prize-winning novelist, essayist and screenwriter Chabon has had multiple award-winning novels, non-fiction and short stories including The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, Summerland and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and his most recent publication Telegraph Avenue. Chabon believes that three things are required for success as a novelist: “talent, luck and discipline”.

Waldman is a New York Times best-selling author with novels such as Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road and Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, as well as Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, which was adapted into a film called The Other Woman. She has also written numerous essays and insightful profiles of public figures such as Hillary Clinton, which have been printed in highly-esteemed publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Join Waldman and Chabon as they interview each other and talk about various aspects of their lives including their marriage, their children, and most importantly about their literary endeavours. (ASha)

Nov 3. York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Corner of City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale. $25-$35. Tickets & info: swf.org.au/events or 9351 9740 

BY ANVI SHARMA