Michael Chabon is serious about genre - Los Angeles Times

Michael Chabon is serious about genre - Los Angeles Times: "MICHAEL CHABON, the author of novels such as the exuberant, Pulitzer-winning 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union,' an alternate-universe story that recently won the Nebula Award, has long harbored a passion: to make the literary world safe for genre fiction, and to expand the notion of what a serious work of fiction can be. 'Entertainment has a bad name,' begins the opening essay of his new collection 'Maps and Legends,' called 'Trickster in a Suit of Lights.' 'Serious people learn to mistrust and even revile it. The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.'

We spoke to Chabon, 45, from his home in Berkeley about his crusade to save comics, science fiction, fantasy, horror and detective fiction from condescension."