Speakers: Alex Clark, Michael Chabon

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon’s new book is a literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure – and the forces that work to destroy us. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill Prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of ‘the American Century,’ Moonglow collapses an era into a single life and a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional non-fiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most daring, his most moving, his most Chabonesque. Michael Chabon’s interviewer is Alex Clark.