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Michael Chabon said in interviews that to prepare for Yiddish Policemen's Union, he re-read his favorite mystery writers -- Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald. Can you see the hard-boiled influence in Yiddish Policemen's Union? Would you consider it a hard-boiled mystery like The Big Sleep? Chabon has been described as a writer who can take genre novels into the realm of literary fiction. "His books show a remarkable ability to be comfortable in exploiting the delights of genre writing and yet incorporate enough imaginative variation on the genres to be taken seriously by the literary establishment." (J. Madison Davis, World Literature Today, 2008). Do you think more mysteries should be taken seriously by the 'literary establishment'? Does anyone care what they think?
