The Writer’s Notebook: Michael Chabon - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com

The Writer’s Notebook: Michael Chabon - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com: "Writers’ journals are like musicians’ scales: practice, but also play — a chance to keep limber and test new ideas. They offer a place for personal reflections, fictional sketches, observed anecdotes and flights of language. They’re also particularly well suited to the blog format. As an occasional feature, then, Paper Cuts will ask authors to share a journal entry with our readers.

This week: Michael Chabon, whose novels include “Wonder Boys,” “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” and “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.”"