Columnist Jon Carroll Hosts An Evening In Conversation With Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman 12/7 At Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Award-winning columnist Jon Carroll will host an evening in conversation with the literary power house married couple, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon and New York Times best-selling author Ayelet Waldman Monday, December 7, 7:00pm, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (2025 Addison Street, Berkeley.) These incredible authors will talk about the tough choices they, and other parents, face today in this lively and humorous candid conversation to benefit the academic and financial assistance programs at Park Day School in Oakland. Tickets ($30) can be purchased online at www.parkdayschool.org or call 510-653-0317, ext 103.

Author Michael Chabon is known for continually reinventing conventional genres and entertaining readers while gently provoking self-reflection. His writings are widely considered the "cutting edge" of conventional fiction, with Time Magazine declaring "you can almost see the future of literature coming." Called "Wondrous, wise, and beautiful" by the New York Times, his newest book, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, is a collection of slyly interlinked essays based on personal reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, and his first major work of nonfiction. His first novel, an hilarious and poignant coming of age story titled The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was published when he was just 25 and catapulted him to literary celebrity. He followed it with novels including Wonder Boys (later converted to a film starring Michael Douglas), The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Summerland, and Gentlemen of the Road. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 for his internationally celebrated novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Ayelet Waldman is the author of The New York Times bestseller, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace. Her other books include Daughter's Keeper, the Mommy-Track Mysteries, and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. A film based on this novel starring Natalie Portman recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Waldman's personal essays have been published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, the Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, Elle Magazine, Vogue, Allure, Cookie, Child, Parenting, Real Simple, Health, and Salon.com. Her radio commentaries have appeared on "All Things Considered" and "The California Report."

Jon Carroll is the current winner of the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Carroll attracts an avid and passionate following for the column he has written for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1982, in which he skewers politicos, espouses moderate to liberal causes, and hilariously chronicles the lives of house cats and occasionally the World's Most Perfect Grandchild. Prior to this career, Carroll was an award-winning editor at publications including Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and New West Magazine.

WHEN: Monday, December 7, 2009, 7:00pm
Arrive early to purchase a glass of wine and find best seating.

WHERE: Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison Street, Berkeley

TICKETS: Tickets ($30) can be purchased in advance online at www.ParkDaySchool.org or by calling 510-653-0317 x103. ($5 discount for students with valid student ID)

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