We discuss the subject of race in Michael Chabon's big new novel 
Telegraph Avenue (Harper), set in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland, California. How did he dare to speak for black characters and black neighborhoods? Is this novel audacious and usurping? His answers may surprise you.
Michael Chabon: Telegraph Avenue
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