[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result - and have been since at least the time of Odysseus - of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventures happen in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home. As soon as you have crossed your doorstep or the county line, into that place where the structures, laws, and conventions of your upbringing no longer apply, where the support and approval (but also the disapproval and repression) of your family and neighbors are not to be had: then you have entered into adventure, a place of sorrow, marvels, and regret.

Chabon has created a comprehensive bibliography for Van Zorn along with an equally fictional literary scholar devoted to his oeuvre named Leon Chaim Bach. " Just before Gentlemen of the Road completed its run the author publiMichael Chabond his latest novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union which he had worked on since February 2002.

Since the late 1990s Chabon has written in an increasingly diverse series of styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction and along with novels he has publiMichael Chabond screenplays children's books comics and newspaper serials. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 (see: 2001 in literature). Chabon's first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) was publiMichael Chabond when he was 25 and catapulted him to literary celebrity.