Apart from being an accomplished cross-genre author and Pulitzer Prize winner, part of what inspires me about Chabon is his fastidious work ethic. He writes every day from 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. For non-writers out there that might seem like a short day at the office, to which I say: try it. Writing with dedication for an hour is hard. Part of Chabon's success comes from his ability to get up every day and put pen to paper (or fingers to keys).
But this post isn't about any of that. I am only writing right now to give the Author's Note to his recent novel Moonglow which is perfect in every way. Those other two paragraphs are what we might call filler.
Here it is:
In preparing this memoir, I have stuck to facts except when facts refused to conform with memory, narrative purpose, or the truth as I prefer to understand it. Wherever liberties have been taken with names, dates, places, events, and conversations, or with the identities, motivations, and interrelationships of family members and historical personages, the reader is assured that they have been taken with due abandon.
How can you not want to read a book that begins that way?
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