A long-awaited biography of Leonard Cohen, a splendid new novel by Michael Chabon and a revealing history of the FBI in 1960s Berkeley top this month’s list of recent releases by Bay Area authors.

From Sept. 7-14, Oakland bookstore Diesel will temporarily transform into Brokeland Records, the main location described in Michael Chabon's new novel Telegraph Avenue. The Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

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IS IT SOMETHING in the water? Bay Area authors are hard at work and writing to impress. This Local Literati listing boasts some genuine star power. Michael Chabon intrigues us with a new novel, Robert ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- You may know the celebrity author couple Ayelet Waldman and her husband Michael Chabon. Waldman has written more than a dozen novels and Chabon is a Pulitzer Prize winner. "I ...

When I see diversity-casting in commercials—two bland Caucasians waving beer cans at a TV, or at a driving up to a Taco Bell window, accompanied, somehow, by a handsome black guy—the word that pops ...

Of all Barack Obama’s recent appearances — and, what with the upcoming election, they are legion — possibly the most startling is the one he makes 158 pages into Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue. The ...

When I mentioned the Oakland setting of “Telegraph Avenue” to my father—born and raised in the Bay Area—he asked me if there was a corrupt overlord-esque City Councilman and a zoning battle. Bingo.

Michael Chabon, Author, read by the author. HighBridge $39.95 (, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hours, $39.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-56511-721-1 Pulitzer Prize–winner Chabon (The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay) ...

This has been a huge year for TV performers and producers with roots in the Bay Area. Although we have no way of officially quantifying it, we’re pretty sure that, collectively, they’ve collected more ...