"A Novel with the Grooviest Soundtrack since 'High Fidelity'"

"There are moments here and there in 'Telegraph Avenue' where Mr. Chabon, himself sounds as if he’s trying very hard 'to sound like he was from the ’hood,' but for the most part he does such a graceful job of ventriloquism with his characters that the reader forgets they are fictional creations. His people become so real to us, their problems so palpably netted in the author’s buoyant, expressionistic prose, that the novel gradually becomes a genuinely immersive experience—something increasingly rare in our ADD age."

Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times reviews Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue.