AZ Rep: Chabon's novel and NYT Mag series--more details

Author mines Jewish history: "If you're waiting for the next novel by Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, you may be looking in the wrong place.

Previously scheduled for publication this month, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is described as a thriller set in an alternate world where a Jewish homeland was set up, not in Palestine, but in Alaska - as per an actual proposal floated by the Roosevelt administration in 1939.

That novel has been postponed until May, to give Chabon time for one more rewrite. But in the meantime, he's working on a serial novel to be published in the New York Times Magazine starting in January. Working title: Jews With Swords. Chabon, who will give a 'reading with commentary' on Saturday sponsored by Arizona State University's Piper Center for Creative Writing, has described the serial as a 'swashbuckling adventure story set around the year 1000.' "