Michael Chabon Read at Same Time as Amy Sohn

While Amy Sohn was serenading Richard Meier at his glass
shack Thursday night, Gersh and I were across the street–at the library–
listening to Michael Chabon reading from his new true-life
tribute to family life (his own). 

With his "Bad Mom" wife away–she admitted in NYT loving him more
than their children and got howls or protest along with a book
contract out of the remark–twenties women
felt uninhibited in drooling over the matinee-idol-looks
novelist.  Young men, who made up the rest of the
SRO audience, were equally fascinated, but by
Chabon's snapshot-to-generalization conclusions
about the rocky course of parenthood.

If any part of his Manhood for Amateurs reaches the screen,
as did his Wonder Boys, in which Michael Douglas riffed
on Chabon's autobiographical put-upon hero, a younger
and smoother-faced actor will have to be found.  Is there a
third-generation-acting Douglas emoting in the wings?